Brussels, 20/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - Less than two months before the Copenhagen conference, the EU position on funding the fight against climate change remains uncertain. With the Ecofin Council called on to clarify the situation ahead of the European Council (29-30 October), EU finance ministers failed to agree on a set of conclusions (see EUROPE 10000), doing little to ease the uncertainty that surrounds the issue of how to share the burden among member states. The weighting of criteria taken into account in the financial scale has not yet been decided. Despite a number of forms of words, Poland, concerned that it will be asked to bear too great a share of the responsibility, refused to agree a text that failed to take sufficient account, it said, of the least prosperous member states. “Everything was there for an agreement,” said Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg after the meeting, complaining about “a lack of commitment to reach agreement before the European Council”. Still optimistic, he said that the “political pressure will not go away” among heads of state, so that “the spirit of flexibility and pragmatism will rise in certain capitals”. (A.B./transl.rt)