EU environment ministers on Monday (14 October) caved in to German pressure and agreed to reopen a deal that had been reached in June on a cap for CO2 emissions for new cars.
The deal would have limited all new cars' carbon emissions to 95 grams per kilometre from 2020 on.
But Germany, home of big carmakers Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen, argued that the cap is not "flexible" enough and could endanger its industry and jobs.
"It is not a fight over principles but on how we bind...
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