European Commission resilience to German lobbying is being tested on Wednesday (8 November) as the executive unveils new car emissions targets.
Earlier drafts of its proposal said up to 20 percent of EU car makers' models should be electric vehicles and that 10 percent should be hybrid ones by 2030.
It also said there should be overall cuts of up to 35 percent in CO2 emissions between 2020 and 2030 in the transport sector.
It included a mandatory target for CO2 reductions ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.