BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen’s under-attack climate mission needs rescuing by the very man who’s made a sport of shredding her green agenda: Manfred Weber, her political frenemy.
He’s not rushing to its defense.
On Tuesday, a parliamentary “fuck-up” — in the words of one lawmaker — left the EU’s 2040 climate target, a cornerstone of the European Commission president’s climate plans, in the hands of those who seek to destroy it.
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The far-right Patriots for Europe won a bidding war to steer the European Parliament’s deliberations on the proposal, with the explicit goal of weakening or blocking the legislation.
