From left, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy share a word during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. EU leaders open a difficult summit, facing an east-west rift over who should pay most to entice developing nations to sign up to a new global climate change pact. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
BRUSSELS – The European Union is seeking to maintain a united stand on climate change by giving leeway to poorer member states to pay less into global climate aid fund.
EU leaders opened a final day of summit talks Friday facing a new proposal that would allow cash-strapped eastern EU states to pay less into a fund to entice developing nations to join an international climate pact by helping them cope with the effects of global warming.
The initial aid proposal was watered down after nine eastern EU members said they did not want to strain crisis-stretched budgets too far.
The EU hopes to agree on a firm figure for its contribution to the aid fund before the December U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen.
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The more reason to not trust these fake "centrists" (ideologues), and agitate against Tony Blair, war criminal, becoming President of the "E.U."!!
CounterPunch has a great piece on it.
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