Emissions targets deferred, Newsletter

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By&nbspEuronews

Published on 15/09/2025 - 12:13 GMT+2

Key diary dates

Tuesday 16 September: General Affairs Council: EU ministers to sermon European Council docket and yearly regularisation of instrumentality dialogue.
Thursday 18 September: Environment Council to question statement (‘general approach’) connected a connection to amend the European clime instrumentality to found a binding intermediate clime people for 2040.
Friday 19 - Saturday 20 September: Informal gathering of economical and fiscal affairs ministers successful Copenhagen.

In spotlight

Delay to the 2040 EU clime emissions people determination is simply a situation not lone to the Danish EU presidency but besides to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The Danes had hoped to propulsion the determination done an situation ministers Council successful Brussels this Thursday.

The Commission projected a 90% emissions simplification people for 2040, compared to 1990 levels, backmost successful July.

But subordinate states including France and Germany person successfully pushed for the contented to beryllium deferred for statement by EU heads of authorities during the October summit.

The contented is simply a cardinal battleground implicit the aboriginal of von der Leyen’s Green Deal, touted arsenic a cardinal accomplishment of her archetypal mandate, but downplayed pursuing past year’s European Parliament elections saw a plaything to the close and renewed absorption connected competitiveness.

Last week’s State of the Union code highlighted von der Leyen’s precarious presumption successful the Parliament arsenic she attempts to support the main centrist bloc of enactment connected side.

She stated that she wanted to enactment connected people with her biology objectives and execute a climate-neutral system by 2050 successful a uncommon notation to the Green Deal.

But her words volition beryllium tested astatine the COP30 clime acme successful Brazil successful November, wherever subordinate states and the Commission volition beryllium expected to taxable the bloc’s obligations nether the 2015 Paris clime statement to travel up with commitments connected c reductions for the adjacent decade.

Delay and dilution volition embolden those successful the Parliament connected the near and greenish wings: the Left radical submitted a no-confidence motion successful the Commission past week.

But with different no-confidence question arriving from the close flank, von der Leyen is progressively caught betwixt a stone and a hard place.

Policy newsmakers

EU chases down India commercialized woody with wrangling implicit food

Late insertion of nutrient and workplace issues connected the docket of an EU delegation successful New Delhi past week suggested the talks connected a aboriginal commercialized woody betwixt the brace are present precise advanced, sources told Euronews. Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen (left) joined Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič (right) successful New Delhi “to correspond the cultivation aspects and support EU farmers’ interests”.