The Green Deal Could Make—or Break—the European Project: The EU Must Not Let Populists and Nationalists Derail the Plan
The Green Deal Could Make—or Break—the European Project: The EU Must Not Let Populists and Nationalists Derail the Plan
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[SS from the article by Nathalie Toccci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome]
“Skeptics were poised to add the European Green Deal to that long list of failures when it was first unveiled in mid-December 2019. As the signature initiative of the European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen, the deal aims to make Europe carbon-neutral by 2050, comprehensively overhauling nearly every sector of the continent’s economy in the process. Although there was good reason to predict that such an ambitious agenda might provoke division and controversy in a union already struggling to find its footing, the deal appears to have infused the European project with a new sense of unity and hope. The push for carbon neutrality has traditionally been viewed with greater skepticism in southern Europe and especially in eastern Europe, but the inclusion of fiscal transfer mechanisms to aid weaker economies through the transition has helped mitigate opposition.”
Surprised pikachu
That was hardly an optimistic article.
Just 34% of energy needs are being met with renewables, the project is grossly underfunded, severe price spikes are going to occur for decades, and even with offsets it’s going to hammer poorer nations and the working class across the continent?
No shit, she’s worried about the rise of populism and euroskepticism. She should be.
Green deal will turn all poorer EU countries into full-blown populism countries, when citizens start to have problem to pay for the Green deal.