After the right -wing parties won a large in the EU elections last June, the European Commission exchanged greenery for competitiveness. His first big initiative, a “competitiveness compass”, underlined in this direction frankly. The fight against deindustrialisation was now priority.
The European Parliament raises in the same direction. And no group has changed the course more radically than the European center -right party – the European People’s Party – the political family of the Ursula von der Leyen commission and the largest block in Parliament and around the painting of EU national leaders.
The support of the EPP, both in Parliament and in the governments of the continent, was essential to the adoption of climate legislation in the past five years. But the party now goes after some of the very rules that it has helped to approve.
The EPP factions, in particular those of central and eastern Europe, have long criticized the green agreement to be too ambitious. But these days, the Western European Wings of the Party – in particular the Germans – join, citing complaints from industry.
A moment in the watershed came last month during a rally of national leaders of the EPP in Berlin. Managers of German Christian Democrats – who are favored to take power after the General Snap elections of February 23 of Germany – distributed a declaration which initiated the group to considerably weaken several pillars of the Green Agreement, targets Renewable energies to the EU carbon border tax.
The leaders, according to an EU diplomat in the room who was not authorized to speak publicly about the private meeting, accepted the German newspaper with few baffles. Including Von der Leyen, for whom the green agreement is a basic heritage.
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