{"id":387271,"date":"2025-08-31T14:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387271\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:33:18","slug":"macron-and-merz-urge-easing-of-eu-pollution-laws-to-revive-ailing-industry-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387271\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron and Merz urge easing of EU pollution laws to revive ailing industry \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two governments also pushed for an easing of financial constraints for Europe\u2019s struggling chemicals industry.<\/p>\n<p>Merz and Macron pushed for an easing of recently-revised urban <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/174833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wastewater rules<\/a>, which require cosmetics and pharmaceuticals companies to bear the bulk of the costs of cleaning up micropollutants in urban wastewater from the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has already <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/198575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed<\/a> to producing an updated study on impacts of the extended producer responsibility scheme, following strong industry pushback. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statement from the EU&#8217;s two biggest economies sends a strong message to Brussels to push ahead with its drive to cut red tape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo unleash our companies\u2019 full potential of growth and productivity it is &#8230; urgent to substantially ease the complexity and simplify the European Union\u2019s regulatory environment,\u201d the document states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials recycling focus<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders repeated calls for better rules to facilitate the\u00a0recycling and reuse of critical raw materials (CRM), as EU countries scramble to reduce dependency on Chinese minerals essential <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/203071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in defense<\/a> and the energy transition. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two governments also pushed for an easing of financial constraints for Europe\u2019s struggling chemicals industry. Merz and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[10684,5284,6641,10685,34,35,728,2000,299,5187,1699,36,1945,1824,2199,43,856,8106,34992,10688,2443,5549,52824,12339,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-387271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-chemicals","9":"tag-circular-economy","10":"tag-competitiveness","11":"tag-critical-raw-materials","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-energy","14":"tag-environment","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-friedrich-merz","21":"tag-germany","22":"tag-italy","23":"tag-macron","24":"tag-pollution","25":"tag-raw-materials","26":"tag-reach","27":"tag-recycling","28":"tag-regulation","29":"tag-safety","30":"tag-state-aid","31":"tag-waste","32":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115123873680784713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387271","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=387271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}