EUObserver: Why Visegrad 4 need to get real about climate change
Our Think Visegrad Fellow Linda Zeilina commented for EUObserver on the Visegrad group and its views on climate change.
2. July 2019
What is the position of the V4 on Climate change? How the V4 will respond?
As Europe is experiencing hottest weather in decades, climate change is back in headlines. More accurately, it never leaves the headlines. It has become a constant feature of our news cycle. Yet only recently, some of the Visegrad Four group countries blocked the EU's climate target, showing great unwillingness to face the elephant in the room: that as the climate changes, the European countries relying on coal are on a path that is neither environmentally nor economically sustainable.