Far-right and nationalist parties are expected to make big gains in the June European Parliament elections, at the expense of Greens, liberals and left-wing parties. That much we already knew. But what could this mean for EU climate policies?<\/p>\n
The EU got a foreshadowing last week when lawmakers in parliament debated the European Commission's recommended climate target for 2040 \u2013 a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels. Read Fred Simon's breakdown of what each side had to say.<\/p>\n
Conservative rebellion<\/strong>\u00a0. Hardline conservative and far-right groups spoke at the parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, warning of the social consequences and risk of deindustrialisation linked to higher EU climate targets. (Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Simon, more at euractiv.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Far-right and nationalist parties are expected to make big gains in the June European Parliament elections, at the expense of Greens, liberals and left-wing parties. That much we already knew. But what could this mean for EU climate policies? The EU got a foreshadowing last week when lawmakers in parliament debated the European Commission\u2019s recommended 2040 climate target [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}