Six EU ministers have signed a joint letter addressed to European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, asking the Commission to revise the bloc’s climate goals, in such a way as to achieve the set targets without suffocating European competitiveness.
Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia shared the letter, signed along with the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Hungary and Czechia, on X.
SIX EU PRIME MINISTERS JOINTLY CALL ON PRESIDENT URSULA VON DER LEYEN FOR A MORE REALISTIC CLIMATE POLICY AND THE PROTECTION OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRY.
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The joint letter accuses the European Council of “ideological dogmatism,” recalling that European competitiveness has been deteriorating in recent years due Brussels decisions based on ideology rather than facts.
Key sectors such as manufacturing and the automotive industry are struggling under the current regulatory framework enforcing decarbonization on the Old Continent. The EU has put a price so high on climate neutrality that it is apparently willing to kill its biggest industries.
The joint letter of the six heads of government seeks to have some regulations concerning certain cars and car components revised, as it is now the car making sector that is suffering the most from the suffocating framework. The letter does not call for abolishing decarbonisation efforts, nor does it label it unimportant: it rather calls for common sense and a right balance between doing well and doing good.
“We can and we must pursue our climatic goal in an effective way, while not killing our competitiveness in the meanwhile since there is nothing green in an industrial desert,” states the letter.
The call for action proposes tax incentives and other governmental benefits for shifting towards low-emission vehicles such as plug-in hybrids or electric vehicles (EVs) instead of outright banning cars with higher emissions.
Zolta Győri is a journalist at europeanconservative.com.
