Germany angers EU after putting brakes on fossil fuel car ban

Brussels (AFP) March 7, 2023

Berlin has upset EU partners by blocking a milestone agreement to ban new sales of fossil fuel cars from 2035, as German domestic politics takes the bloc hostage. The planned ban is key to Brussels' push to make the bloc climate-neutral by 2050, with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Now, the German chancellor's scramble to keep his coalition together has enraged many in the EU, since t