Brussels advances in the veto of thermal vehicles by 2035

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The Community Executive advances with a firm step towards the end of new combustion vehicles by 2035. If on June 8 it was the Parliament that endorsed this measure, this Tuesday it will be the turn of the Environment Council. And, in the opinion of the Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, Brussels will not move an iota from a position that has condemned the industry and that threatens to destroy one of every four jobs generated by the car in Galicia. “We are preparing to do without combustion engines, I don’t think there will be any changes”, the also third vice president of the Government abounded in an act organized by Nueva Economía Fórum.

What is not clear is that this measure attracts the support of the main countries of the community coalition. The German Finance Minister, Christian Lindner, attacked this week against the deadlines stipulated in the proposal for a directive, which establish that new cars with thermal engines cannot be sold from 2035 and that they must stop circulating by 2050. “It’s a wrong decision,” he said, defending the use of “climate-neutral” synthetic fuels to maintain combustion vehicles. According to a report prepared by PwC Strategy for the European employers’ association of component manufacturers Clepa, the transition to a 100% electric model could destroy more than 122,000 jobs in Germany.

“The industrial suicide which we are going to take to Europe, and particularly to Spain, where the measures still go further, they show that more and more organizations are joining what Faconauto has been denouncing for a long time, “he denounced this Friday on his social networks the president of the dealer association, Gerardo Pérez. “We hope that it is not the last voice – he stressed, referring to Christian Lindner himself – and that the rest of the European group, and particularly the Spanish, do not join an initiative that will generate a huge job losses and that it will continue to de-industrialize our country and Europe”.

Some thirty component suppliers based in Galicia, which add up to a workforce of more than 4,000 workers, are dedicated to processes related to combustion engines. In some cases, this is the core of their activity, so they will have to face a full transformation to avoid closure.

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