EU facing revolt over climate change target enforcement - Telegraph

Poland fears that its reliance on coal-fired power stations will see it unfairly squeezed and pushed to invest in expensive wind turbines, unlike France which is dependent on nuclear energy.

"We do not say to the French that they have to close down their nuclear power industry and build windmills, and nobody can tell us the equivalent," said Donald Tusk, Poland's Prime Minister.

"We have a veto right in order to use it if there is no other possibility."

The row has opened a deep rift over the costs of meeting environmental targets between rich Northern and Western member states and their poorer neighbours.

An EU text, agreed at a summit in Brussels today, has dropped all reference to four pieces of European Commission legislation required to implement the targets and has introduced a new requirement that they be "cost effective".