{"id":420011,"date":"2025-09-13T02:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420011\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:43:01","slug":"vote-on-2040-climate-target-canceled-after-big-eu-countries-block-decision-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420011\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote on 2040 climate target canceled after big EU countries block decision \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision comes after France and Germany joined Poland and Italy in demanding that the vote be postponed until national leaders can have a say on the target, creating a blocking minority.<\/p>\n<p>A ministerial discussion will still be held on Thursday to prepare for a debate at leaders\u2019 level. A spokesperson for European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa said that leaders would hold a \u201cstrategic discussion\u201d at their Oct. 23 summit \u201con what the best economic strategy is to achieve Europe\u2019s climate targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In total, 11 of 27 countries asked for a delay during a preparatory meeting on Friday, three diplomats said, listing the Czech Republic, Malta, Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Latvia besides Italy, France, Germany and Poland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has always been our ambition \u2026 to get agreement on an EU target for 2040 as quickly as possible. I have never hidden the fact that it is a difficult task that is politically complicated,\u201d Danish Climate Minister Lars Aagaard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritzau.dk\/nyhed\/nyheder\/vis\/d0d41f61-d8a3-4a31-afbc-c879eeae3815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said after the meeting<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see that among a sufficient number of member states there is a desire for the heads of government to discuss the matter before those member states are ready to conclude negotiations on the 2040 climate target,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/204624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as Germany<\/a>, clarified that they want only a discussion but no decision at leaders\u2019 level, with a vote among ministers held at a later date. A leaders\u2019 agreement requires unanimity, raising the threat of a single country vetoing the target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision comes after France and Germany joined Poland and Italy in demanding that the vote be postponed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64437,2311,18038,365,5398,728,2000,299,5187,34065,36,1824,4175,2199,17792,770],"class_list":{"0":"post-420011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-2040-climate-target","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-neutrality","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-emissions","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-european-green-deal","18":"tag-france","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","21":"tag-italy","22":"tag-paris-climate-agreement","23":"tag-poland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}