This is what happens when no one is really paying attention: At a meeting in Brussels in March, the EU Council of Ministers decided, among many other issues, on a new climate policy course: Instead of continuing to call for ending all fossil fuels without any ifs and buts, they now say: If the as-yet unproven technology of CO2 capture (CCS) is used for this purpose, that would also be okay. So maybe fossil fuels still have a future in a climate-neutral EU.