The week the EU’s climate foundations started to shake

Mihaela Păun

BRUSSELS — Last week, the very foundations of the European Union's climate efforts started creaking under pressure. For months, European capitals have attacked the bloc's environmental policies, arguing onerous green rules were strangling their economies. But the EU's single biggest weapon for slowing global warming remained off-limits. That taboo was broken last week at two back-to-back summits focused on curing the continent’s economic malaise, as leaders argued high carbon prices under the

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