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The European Green Deal faces huge challenges
The European Commission’s Green Deal sets extremely ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and investing in environmentally friendly technologies. Yet the huge amount of funding that will be required could fail to materialize, due to intra-EU disagreements over budget rules and debt ceilings. And if other big polluters don’t follow the bloc’s lead, it could be undercutting its own economic competitiveness.
Will the EU change its focus and reshape its budget?
Despite a disappointing economic track record, the European Union still has significant support among voters. However, this popularity is mostly due to a lack of trust in national politics. To live up to the public’s expectations, the EU will need to make significant adjustments to its spending patterns to tackle ...
Goodbye freedom, democracy and the rule of law
By declaring a state of climate emergency, the European Parliament opened the door to excessive measures that could ultimately violate individual freedoms and erode democracy in the European Union. The climate debate has become a political means to implement a populist agenda.
Focus Germany: Taxing climate subsidy, subsidizing climate tax
Germany is struggling to achieve its current environmental goals. A new policy package under consideration now is unlikely to provide a clear path forward. The taxes and subsidies it foresees contradict each other and could ultimately impede technological advancement. The proposal has proven disappointing to climate activists and economic critics ...
Opinion: The primacy of politics is a dangerous dogma
Even after the fall of Communism, the vision of a planned and controlled society is alive and well. By putting politics first, however, the idea that human affairs must be managed centrally and bureaucratically necessarily limits individual rights and freedom of choice. In the end, it simply substitutes tyranny for ...
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