EU split on climate change plans

With the ink barely dry on plans by the European Commission for fighting climate change, members of the EU have already started a game of tug-of-war to pull the legal proposals in their favor.

"It's most important that the national targets … take into account solidarity and [economic] convergence," said Arturas Paulauskas, Environment Minister for Lithuania, one of the EU's newest and least developed members.

The EU's climate-change plans "are not the place to deal with cohesion and solidarity — that is what cohesion funds and the [EU] budget are for," retorted Hilary Benn, environment minister for Britain — one of the EU's richest and most developed economies.