US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules

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European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.  The threats were made last month, as the U.S. maneuvered to block a new effort to tax pollution at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization in London. Eight envoys, officials and civil society observers from Europe, granted anonymity to

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