The Green Deal a “costly extravaganza.”

At the EU level, Elisabetta Cornago, a senior research fellow at the respected Centre for European Reform, says we have seen attempts of centre-right parties in the European Parliament to “kill” Green Deal policies such as the phase-out of internal combustion engine vehicles or the nature restoration law.

Both French President Emmanuel Macron and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo have, in the past, called for a pause in new European green policy initiatives. This came after a ‘wave’ of new EU policies were introduced to meet 2030 climate goals.

“Macron and De Croo argued governments and businesses need time to implement these new rules and adjust to them,” says Cornago.

...Cornago said the findings underlined the fact that “voters who already feel economically insecure and alienated from politics have been driving the recent backlash against green policies.”