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Fri 10 Oct 2009EU leaders face heated debate on climate policy
ANALYSIS:With just 44 days to go to the Copenhagen climate conference, the EU faces difficulties agreeing a position
THE EUROPEAN Union always wanted to be seen as playing a leadership role in tackling climate change. If it wasn’t for Europe, indeed, the Kyoto Protocol would never have come into force, in the wake of former US president George Bush spurning the treaty in March 2001, just two months after taking office.
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