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School children from the new climate action movement visited the European Parliament on Wednesday (Photo: European Parliament)

EPP dismiss higher climate target as 'propaganda'

The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) has slammed a call for a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target as "unrealistic" and part of a left-wing "propaganda" effort.

On Thursday (14 March), the European Parliament adopted a resolution on climate change, partly in response to the growing protests among young Europeans.

One amendment tabled in Strasbourg said that MEPs would support an update of the EU's contribu...

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