
EU’s ‘Climate Pope’ Officially Resigns, Šefčovič Assumes Duties
One of the longest-serving European Commissioners, Maroš Šefčovič is tasked with rolling out Timmermans’ pet project, the EU’s Green Deal.
One of the longest-serving European Commissioners, Maroš Šefčovič is tasked with rolling out Timmermans’ pet project, the EU’s Green Deal.
Dutch anti-globalist firebrand Eva Vlaardingerbroek asked: “Who’s paying for that salary? We are! The deplorables that Frans Timmermans wants to lock up in 15-minute cities while we munch on crickets and bring sacrifices to the climate Gods.”
Farmers rallied outside the planned site of a chemical plant in eastern Antwerp, which protestors say underlines the government’s double standards when it comes to nitrogen emissions for big business.
The ecological issue—a ‘green deal’ driving up energy bills; implementing driving prohibitions in cities; condemning cars before their time; making homes unfit to rent or sell—will be at the heart of the European elections next spring.
The European Union’s drive for ever more intrusive regulations to combat climate change are being met with resistance from member states. Despite the Commission’s best efforts to push the Green Deal, exorbitant economic costs and voter discontent has sparked a renewed interest in nuclear energy.
The growth of the Right comes at the expense of Europeans Greens as voters turn their back on the flatlining European Green Deal.
The measures have been noticed—and mocked—across Europe, where policymakers are busy pursuing the Green Deal.
China has made its way to the top of the market by relying on cheap coal and cheap labour, work conducted under conditions that would not be allowed in a European country due to human rights violations and net-zero policies.
EU Commissioner and Green Deal mastermind Frans Timmermans has announced a return to Dutch national politics to be the country’s next prime minister as his green agenda butts heads with the populist party borne of the Dutch farmers’ protests.
Over one million Europeans want farmers to stop using synthetic pesticides; farmers want policy coherence and consistency. Can a resolution be found?