Will the European Union’s climate ambitions be hampered by the weaker influence of the environmentalists in Parliament? Following the elections, with the latest figures confirming a loss of 18 seats for the Greens/EFA group, Ursula von der Leyen, the German leader of the EPP list, was keen to reassure voters that “everything must be done to combat climate change”. The day before, when the results were announced, the Green ‘co-Spitzenkandidat’, Bas Eickhout, had said that the EU...