EU President Seeks Reelection on Climate Plank. By Pete Harrison, Reuters, September 4, 2009. "Europe must take bold steps to strip carbon emissions out of its transport and electricity generation systems, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said on Thursday. 'We need to start working now on a radical pathway to reaching a far more sustainable Europe by 2020,' Barroso said in a policy document laying out his priorities if he wins a second five-year term... Barroso [a conservative former Portuguese prime minister] has already won the backing of member states and no rival candidate has emerged, but needs the support of his Socialist, Liberal and Green opponents in the 736-member parliament to win a vote of approval... The parliament has consistently taken a greener approach than the EU's 27 heads of state during negotiations over the last two years over EU energy reform and measures to curb pollution from cars and industry. The Green party, which has been fiercely critical of Barroso's unchallenged return to power, said it would not comment until he had faced questions from its members at a meeting next week. Environmental campaigners gave a guarded welcome to Barroso's acknowledgement that climate change requires an urgent response."
2009-09-06
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