The European Council’s two-day summit chiefly focused on events in Ukraine, but the EU’s efforts to curb climate change were also high on the agenda.
European Commission (EC) proposals for a 27% renewables goal for the EU as a whole, with no individual national objectives, were supported by leaders of major nations.
But a final endorsement of a new framework was put off until October this year "at the latest" while negotiations attempt to get sceptical countries in Eastern Europe fully onside.
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