The devestating ecological toll of EU meetings

"European warming is not good for the climate", notes Richard Werly, as three European meetings have been scheduled for early December: In Lisbon, there is the EU-Africa summit on December 9th followed by the Signature of the Charter of Fundamental Rights on December 12th, and then there is the European Council meeting in Brussels on December 13th. "The 27 are concerned about criticism coming from environmentalists regarding the inevitable flights between Lisbon and Brussels. ... With an impressive airborne ballet on the horizon along with a terrifying ecological record. Make way then for calculators and protocol. The idea of the European Council in Lisbon does indeed make sense. But not so for Belgium, where the 27 have decided to hold their two annual summits there since it enlargement in 2004."

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