The stakes were high, as was the tension among MEPs but, at the end of the day, it was the ambition for the climate, innovation and clean mobility that triumphed in Strasbourg on Wednesday 3 October when the European Parliament gave its stance on last November’s proposal for a regulation aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from the European fleet of light vehicles after 2021 (see EUROPE 12108).
The Parliament voted (389 for, 239 against and 41 abstentions) in favour of the objective to reduce...