this is deja vu news live from berlin the e.u. agrees on more ambitious goals in the fight against climate change after all night talks the bloc decides to cuts greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent this decade but will that shift be enough to make a real difference. also coming up germany's record coronavirus case count prompts calls for tougher restrictions immediately. we have to decide now it is going to

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staying up all night to clinch it now the new target aims to reach net 0 emissions by 2050 council president sean michaud says it will make europe the leader in the fight against climate change. let's bring in our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena who's following this story for us hi alexandra what more can you tell us about the agreement that's been reached. well the fact that the agreement was possible on a more ambitious targets to reduce queen. emissions very significant it is a big step forward this whole french president described it e.u. commission president was in a fund a lie and said in the press conference that this is putting incurably on the right path to be carbon neutral by 2050 that this is going to give clarity to investor in this service and that this is our growth strategy in europe and as you

just mentioned the leader is. acknowledge that they are looking back a very tough negotiations but on guillem merkel said that it was worth staying up the holes nice to have this agreement and of course it is a huge success for her and the germany you council presidency there were some countries a member states that did object because they for example do rely upon coal energy so how did they manage to strike this compromise and convince them. so we talking here about hungry poland and czech republic who opposed to the plan saying that they would need to more help to clean up their economies and in particular it was poland blocking this compromise or deplaned until the last minute today the polish prime minister said today that they are hoping to go to get more money from the modernisation fund and i would say that what helps weaken the momentum in the end

was the agreement on the budget and the e.u. coronavirus with cauvery package because.