At their plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday 4 October, the European Commission and MEPs debated whether the European Union and its Member States should withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, which most MEPs consider to be “a relic of a fossilised past” and “at odds with the Green Deal and the Paris Agreements”, almost a year after the Council of the EU rejected the Commission’s proposal to modernise the Treaty (see EUROPE B13067A8).
Most MEPs expressed their...