After about 15 hours of intense negotiations, the EU27 Environment Ministers finally reached a negotiating position of the EU Council (‘general approach’) on five dossiers of the climate legislation package (‘Fit for 55’ package) falling under their prerogatives, on Wednesday 29 June, at about 2 in the morning.
“We have reached historic agreements with our colleagues that mark a further acceleration of the ecological and energy transition on a European scale”, said the...