Czech PM hails inclusion of nuclear energy in EU climate declaration

Fri, Dec 13, 2019
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CZECH Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Friday hailed climate measures agreed at this week’s European Union (EU) summit as a “huge success,” in spite of significant differences of opinion over the future of nuclear energy.

He said at the start of the second day of the summit that everyone hated the term “nuclear energy” but it found its way into the summit declaration nonetheless.

EU member states agreed on a goal of achieving carbon neutrality in the EU by 2050 after marathon talks ended early Friday.

On the initiative of the Czech Republic, the declaration included the following sentence: “Some member states have indicated that they use nuclear energy as part of their national energy mix.”

Babis said, “Every country must decide its own energy mix, and we also want to decide ourselves.”

He +said that nuclear energy was the only way for the Czech Republic to achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2050.

Poland was the only country that did not agree to the target. Poland will reach the EU goal of achieving climate neutrality at its “own pace,” Polish ambassadors to the EU tweeted. (dpa/NAN)

– Dec. 13, 2019 @ 15:59 GMT |

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