EU says talks over linking EU and UK emissions trading systems impacted by UK politics

LUXEMBOURG, June 25 (Reuters) - The European Union will need time to assess how talks over linking up the EU and UK's emissions trading systems will be affected by the British political situation, given the resignation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra.

Hoekstra told reporters that this meant the EU still needed to 'calibrate' how talks over joining those emissions trading systems would progress.

"I am confident and continue to be confident that we will solve this in a way that will be fruitful for both sides but when depends on how things progress on the other side of the Channel," added Hoekstra.

(Reporting by Kate Abnett;)