Associated Press: European Union governments broadly welcomed proposals Monday for the EU to spend billions of euros to fight global warming, and said they could adopt them by year’s end. At a meeting, EU environment ministers praised the European Commission for proposals to slash greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020 – or 30 percent if the United States and others join Europe in a global climate accord when the current one expires in 2012. Matthias Machnig, the German delegate, said Berlin …