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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg will take part when the Fridays for future organization holds a webcast press conference on Tuesday to pressure the EU to adopt stricter emissions targets by 2030. File photo.
A tightening of the EU’s climate targets runs the risk of getting caught up in the ongoing budget dispute with Hungary and Poland.
The last EU summit this year, on Thursday and Friday, has a packed agenda that could be enough for two and three meetings.
The question is how much is worth discussing, given the disagreement over the new requirements for compliance with the basic principles of the rule of law and democracy.
Hungary and Poland refuse to accept the new requirements and have therefore for the moment stopped approving the new long-term EU budget and the support of the crown.
If that battle cannot be resolved, it will also have consequences for hopes of agreeing at the summit on a toughening of emissions targets for 2030.
– It is difficult to see how this can happen if there is no agreement on the budget, said a senior EU diplomat in a web-based briefing on Monday, according to the Reuters news agency.
The European Commission has proposed that member states accept that emissions be reduced “by at least 55 percent”, compared to 1990 levels. The European Parliament and several member states, in turn, are pushing for 60 percent. hundred or even more.
On Tuesday, the situation before the summit will be discussed by the EU ministers of the member states.
Additionally, the Fridays for future youth movement is pushing for Poland and Hungary to change, and for EU countries to aim for an 80% reduction in emissions.
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