Poland's government, which faces October elections, is even suing Brussels over climate policies.
Britain has already quickly gone from being a leader on the world stage to looking quite weak on green policies, he said.
CITIZENS, BUSINESSESEurope's green policies are still more credible than U.S. ones, given see-sawing between electoral cycles in the United States, some analysts said.
Rows over green policies have propelled right-wing populist parties to second place in both Dutch and German polls.
"Otherwise citizens might start to feel that climate policy is always financially overwhelming and bad, and that sentiment is then exploited by populists."
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