{"id":8286,"date":"2026-03-25T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8286\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:42:24","slug":"eu-countries-fight-brussels-over-industrial-planning-rules-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8286\/","title":{"rendered":"EU countries fight Brussels over industrial planning rules \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response, the EU executive announced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brussels-confirms-another-plan-to-roll-back-green-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a package of measures<\/a>\u00a0to do\u00a0just that\u00a0in December, answering longstanding complaints that it takes too long to build in Europe. Slow permitting was cited as a major block to European competitiveness in former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi&#8217;s landmark 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/topics\/competitiveness\/draghi-report_en#paragraph_47059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0the Commission&#8217;s proposal\u00a0has left\u00a0the capitals\u00a0hungry for\u00a0more freedom to\u00a0manage their own permitting laws, reflecting broader disagreement between Brussels and member countries over how to effectively simplify the EU&#8217;s policy landscape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMember states need enough flexibility to set their own [permitting] procedures,\u201d said\u00a0the\u00a0Croatian\u00a0Minister for Environmental Protection and Green Transition\u00a0Marija Vu\u010dkovi\u0107\u00a0during a meeting of environment ministers in Brussels last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt present permitting procedures are being accelerated across too many different EU legal acts,\u201d\u00a0which creates \u201cadministrative burden\u201d and \u201cconfusion for companies,\u201d\u00a0the\u00a0Estonian Minister for Energy and the Environment\u00a0Andres Sutt\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their simplification would \u201cwork better if related requirements were established in one consolidated and harmonized act,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Commission, so far, is refusing to budge.\u00a0\u201cWe believe that the framework we are proposing is flexible enough to align with national structures,\u201d a Commission official\u00a0familiar with the proposal\u00a0told POLITICO.\u00a0During the environment ministers&#8217; gathering, Brussels environment boss Jessika Roswall had told countries\u00a0the EU executive&#8217;s proposal \u201cstrikes the right balance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response, the EU executive announced\u00a0a package of measures\u00a0to do\u00a0just that\u00a0in December, answering longstanding complaints that it takes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,18,2678,79,317,1676,249,319,383,115,171,173,324,174,328,4972,5858,5859,5860,1218,940,336,221,5580,396,1221,5861],"class_list":["post-8286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-buildings","tag-companies","tag-czech-republic","tag-development","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-eu-summit","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-greece","tag-growth","tag-ireland","tag-jessika-roswall","tag-marija-vuckovic","tag-nature-restoration","tag-public-health","tag-regulatory","tag-rights","tag-romania","tag-slovakia","tag-stability","tag-war","tag-waste","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116288457585915257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}