EU leaders clash at the start of a summit over the bloc's plans to tackle climate crisis
A picture taken on December 12, 2019 shows the European Council meeting room during a European Union Summit at the Europa building in Brussels.
Opposition to the 2050 target from eastern members such as the Czech Republic and Poland will feed into what is expected to be a long, bitter summit debate about climate crisis and the long-term EU budget. "Nuclear energy is clean energy without emissions. I don't know why countries have a problem with this," Babis said as he arrived, after earlier accusing Austria of hypocrisy over its power supplies.
And there was more backing from Hungary's Viktor Orban, who insisted that "without nuclear energy there is no carbon-neutral European economy". Polish and Czech sources predicted that the fight could take the summit into the early hours of Friday morning without an agreement.
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