“What we can’t change is the fact that human beings are dying”. On Monday 12 June, the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, spoke to MEPs at a plenary session in Strasbourg in favour of creating a European day to commemorate the victims of climate change, to be set aside for 15 July.
Supporting the proposal put forward by Frans Timmermans one year after the floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands (see EUROPE B12993A31), Ms Vestager...