Welcome to Better Europe's weekly update on EU Affairs.  COMMISSION FORMALLY BURIES GREEN CLAIMS RULES Remember the "CO2-emission free" claim on the side of that (electric) delivery van? It is gone by now, or at least it should be, with the Empowering Consumers Directive finally applied across Europe. EmpCo, as compliance folk like to call it, was to be joined by the Green Claims Directive, a set of rules telling companies how to substantiate, communicate and verify their green claims. But fate decided otherwise: the negotiations have been stuck for more than a year now, and the Commission formally pulled the plug on the initiative when announcing its Work Programme for 2027 this week. The reason? Well, "the file is unlikely to secure support in the Council within a reasonable…