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The European Commission’s moment of climate truth

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By Zia Weise Verified, Elena Giordano
| POLITICO Europe Verified
BRUSSELS — The European Commission on Wednesday mourned the victims of climate change. A slate of high-profile announcements on Friday will show whether those solemn words were more than just lip service. In recent years, the EU executive has insisted it can lace the continent’s climate efforts into a corset of competitiveness, bowing to the demands of European industrial giants and their political allies without compromising on its ambitions to curb planet-warming emissions.
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The 3 letters Brussels won’t be able to shut up about

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By Zia Weise Verified
| POLITICO Europe Verified
BRUSSELS — Three letters are about to dominate policy debates in the European Union. Best get familiar with them. This Friday, the European Commission will sketch out the future of the Emissions Trading System, or ETS, its most powerful tool to reduce the bloc's contribution to global warming. The reform proposal will kick off months of squabbling among leaders and lawmakers, accompanied by ferocious lobbying from industry and campaigners, as they dissect and amend the plans.
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Brutal June heat wave killed as many as 14,000 Europeans

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By Zia Weise Verified
| Threat Beat
(Jarosław Kwoczała / Unsplash) By Zia Weise • Jul 14, 2026 Last month’s record-breaking heat wave killed thousands across Western Europe, making it one of the continent’s deadliest climate disasters. Preliminary official mortality data and researchers’ estimates from the six hardest-hit countries point to at least 14,000 excess deaths during the period of extreme heat, according to POLITICO’s analysis.
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