China is profiting from the European Union’s climate policy, according to a German lawmaker heading a centre-right European party who spoke out in favour of the combustion engine. It is clear “that the ban on the combustion engine was a serious industrial policy mistake from which China is benefiting,” the head of the European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, told the Funke media group newspapers. We want to “remedy this after the European elections,” Weber said in reports published on Sunday. He was referring to a decision by EU members last year to ban ne…