ANALYSIS-Merkel shifts focus to home front as Europe stews | Reuters

BERLIN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The Angela Merkel who will show up in Brussels this week for a crucial EU summit on the economic crisis is a very different leader from the one who rallied the bloc behind a new reform treaty and bold climate goal last year.
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Dubbed the "Klimakanzlerin", or climate chancellor, in 2007 when she pushed through deals to combat global warming within the EU and G8, Merkel will show her new face in Brussels.

She has privately vowed to resist any measures in a European climate package to be finalised there that would hurt the German car sector or endanger jobs.

Jennifer Marohasy » Europe to Abandon Legally Binding Emission Targets

According to Benny Peiser: I expect that the EU summit at the weekend will come up with a very similar fudge - as usual. I also expect that the green media and climate activists are likely to hail it as a ‘historic’ breakthrough - as usual. But let’s not beat around the bush: whatever the EU summit may or may not decide at the weekend, you can be absolutely sure that it will not be legally binding targets. This original plan has now been abandoned - full stop. Without binding targets, however, the EU will signal unambiguously that it is waiting for the rest of the world to move - before it will make *any* binding commitments. And that, we know, could take for ever.