German Chancellor Angela Merkel will push for a legally binding target of renewable energy use in the European Union despite oppositions from some member countries, local reports said on Tuesday.

Merkel, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, will "by no means give up this goal" in the upcoming EU summit to be held on Thursday in Brussels, German news agency dpa quoted official sources as saying.

However, at least 11 countries have rejected the proposals that all EU members states would mandatorily, rather than voluntarily, increase of the share of renewable energies to 20 percent in overall EU energy consumption by 2020.

The differences among the EU leaders were apparent at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, even though the 27 EU countries have agreed to reduce the green gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020.

So far the proportion of renewable energy use stands at 6.5 percent in the European Union.

The chancellor is also expected to bring up the issue at the Group of Eight summit of leading industrial nations to be held in the northern German Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm in June.

Source: Xinhua