Brussels overturns pesticide reduction decree to appease rural anger: ‘It has become a symbol of polarization’

A better example is the second angle: today, the Board of Commissioners plans to approve an initiative to accelerate decarbonization by making it mandatory to reach a target of 90 percent (compared to 1990 levels) by 2040. One step before that, experts believe it is necessary to make the ultimate goal of neutrality by 2050 possible.

THE DECISION IS IN THE HANDS OF THE STATES

The commission will make a proposal, but that’s when the states will have to give the go-ahead, and at an extremely difficult moment. “The big boys,” led by Germany, have recently urged von der Leyen not to fold the sails, but the combination of climate ambition and sensitivity to industry and now rural protest is proving very difficult.