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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9763

17 October 2008
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / (eu) eu/climate
EU27 confirms climate change targets - Politicians to wrangle over details at December summit

Brussels, 16/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - On the table at the European Council, held amidst economic turmoil and crisis in the banking industry, the climate and energy package came under fire in Brussels on 16 October 2008. The summit managed to prevent the package being watered down and the EU27 agreed that they wanted to sign the package before December 2008, once assurance had been given that there would be full flexibility about how measures are implemented in order to take account of the...

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