After intense lobbying from Germany together with several car manufacturers, it looks like the EU will revoke plans to ban the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines by 2035.

According to the German newspaper Handelsblatt, leading EU politicians confirm that the ban will not be implemented and that they are changing course on car policy.

Among those who have protested the most loudly is the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, something that may have been crucial for the scrapping to now seem likely.

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