EU leaders meet to discuss budget for cutting carbon emissions without Britain, but the departing member's absence does not seem to make the task any easier
Activists hold a banner during a protest against climate change as the COP25 climate summit is held in Madrid, Spain, December 9, 2019.
But at least three coal-hungry countries in the east of the bloc are holding out for a more detailed promise of funding for their energy transition. But European officials and diplomats fear that the former Belgian premier's first summit will be more a baptism of fire than a honeymoon. Polish and Czech sources predicted that the fight could take the summit into the early hours of Friday morning without an agreement.
"It's going to be a massive brawl," one diplomat warned, as others predicted the sun may be coming up again over Brussels before the talks end.
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