Climate a weighty burden for EU

Climate a weighty burden for EU

An east-west divide remains in the EU over contributions to climate targets

The Brussels summit provided a sharp foretaste of the hard bargaining the world can expect at the crucial Copenhagen summit on climate change in December.

There is still an east-west divide in the EU over national contributions to climate targets, with former communist countries such as Poland and Hungary arguing against specific funding pledges at this stage.

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