'EU said to have scrapped plans for combustion ban'

The European Commission has supposedly abandoned plans to ban new cars with combustion engines from 2025, Bild reported on Thursday.

The media outlet cited the head of the European People's Party (EPP) Manfred Weber, saying that he had reached an agreement with the Commission's President Ursula von der Leyen and that the details of the agreement will be announced next Tuesday.

"For new vehicle registrations from 2035 onwards, a 90 percent reduction in CO₂ emissions will now be mandatory for automakers' fleet targets, instead of the previous 100 percent. There will also be no 100 percent target from 2040 onwards," Weber said, after several European officials, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, expressed disagreement regarding the combustion ban.

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