The deal meant that Knotek had until Friday, July 25, to submit his report \u2014\u00a0forcing him to file a simple rejection report rather than a more complex position. Some centrist MEPs worried that if the far right had, for example, suggested a watered-down target, parts of the center-right European People’s Party could have been tempted to side with the Patriots. <\/p>\n
Other MEPs can now file amendments to the position by early September, with an environment committee vote scheduled for later that month. If a majority of centrist MEPs in the committee agree on their own submission, they can pass a counterproposal, which will then be voted on by all lawmakers in October.<\/p>\n
Centrist MEPs hit back<\/p>\n
The motion for rejection encountered instant criticism.<\/p>\n
“Mr. Knotek\u2019s rejection of the 2040 target confirms the destructive agenda of Patriots leading this file and the impossibility of building a functional majority with the far right,” said Javi L\u00f3pez, the Socialists and Democrats’ lead MEP on the proposal.<\/p>\n
He called on the EPP, which is divided over whether to support the target, to work on an “ambitious agreement among pro-European forces.”<\/p>\n
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, who leads the centrist Renew Europe group’s work on the file, said: “This is economically illiterate, and pursues a path that will hurt the most vulnerable regions and people.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deal meant that Knotek had until Friday, July 25, to submit his report \u2014\u00a0forcing him to file…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64437,2311,5398,728,2000,299,5187,1699,1105,7159,107988,107989,11665,107990,5111],"class_list":{"0":"post-289820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-2040-climate-target","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-emissions","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-far-right","17":"tag-fossil-fuels","18":"tag-gerben-jan-gerbrandy","19":"tag-javi-lopez","20":"tag-meps","21":"tag-ondrej-knotek","22":"tag-parliament"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114912331308938832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}