EPP chief seeks centrist compromise on car emissions rules
The European People’s Party (EPP) hopes to reach agreement on a dramatic reversal of the EU’s internal combustion engine ban within the democratic centre of the European Parliament, chairman Manfred Weber has signalled while sidestepping questions about possible cooperation with the far right.
It was “a quite normal thing that a rapporteur presents an EPP report that is the starting point of a negotiation”, Weber told reporters on Wednesday when asked about a proposal to relax CO2 emissions standards for cars and vans to an extent that may be unacceptable to the centre-left.
The Socialists & Democrats, liberal Renew group and Greens had already been highly critical of the European Commission’s original proposal in December, which U-turned on the 2035 zero-emissions standard that would exclude new petrol and diesel cars from the EU market.
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