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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

EU urged not to roll back green agenda in effort to revive faltering economy

Steel coils stored on trains in front of the ThyssenKrupp steel mill
Steel coils at a plant in Duisburg, Germany. The EU economy has been under pressure amid Donald Trump’s tariff trade war. Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images

EU leaders have been warned against a rollback of the green agenda before a summit focused on reviving the bloc’s waning economy.

Campaigners from the Climate Action Network, a pan-European group of NGOs, said European industry was “under real pressure” from “high energy prices, ageing assets, global overcapacity and delayed investments”, but these issues could not be solved by watering down climate and environmental policies.

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