DAILY NEWS French Presidency Briefing: Brussels calling!
12/12/08. Socialist MEPs met on Friday morning with Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , the State Secretary for the environment took place in the Presidency meeting room, which is a carbon copy of a Council of Ministers meeting room, transplanted to Poznan.
The Minister provided MEPs an update on the negotiations in Brussels, which have this morning resumed on the climate change package, as well as other issues. She explained the difficulties the Presidency have had to find a deal, and how the Presidency have undertaken to find a solutions to meet the concerns of Germany, Hungary, the United Kingdom and other countries. However, there is still no deal at this point (11:30 hrs CET). Meanwhile, MEPs who will be directly involved in negotiations in Brussels on Saturday, are getting ready to leave Poznan.
The French Presidency appear to be quietly confident to find a deal, but as the meeting unfolded, mobile calls from Brussels (we assume) kept interrupting the discussions. Two questions still underlie this deal: does the package retain the environmental integrity required to reduce emissions and will the Parliament support the deal? J.W.
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