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Von der Leyen faces rebellion as her party seethes over 2040 climate goal
At a Wednesday meeting conservative MEPs questioned why the EU is offering new targets as farmers protest and elections loom.
A mutiny is growing within Ursula von der Leyen’s own political family just days before the EU executive is to endorse an ambitious plan to slash greenhouse gases.
- Karl Mathiesen and Eddy Wax
- Politico
On Tuesday, von der Leyen’s European Commission is expected to back a proposal to cut 90 percent of EU emissions by 2040, according to leaked drafts.
But at a private meeting on Wednesday, European Parliament members from the European People’s Party — von der Leyen’s center-right political group, the largest in the Parliament — condemned the…