2023-05-12 09:29:04
Emmanuel Macron called for “a European regulatory break” in terms of environmental standards, during a speech at the Élysée on Thursday. The Head of State believes that the European Union has done “more than all its neighbours” and that it now “needs stability”.
“We are ahead, in regulatory terms, of the Americans, the Chinese or any other power in the world”, he indicated during the presentation of his strategy to accelerate the reindustrialization of France.
“Now we have to execute. We must not make new changes to the rules, because we will lose all the players, ”he further pleaded. Otherwise the “risk” is “to be the highest bidder in terms of regulation and the lowest bidder in terms of funding”.
Green MEP David Cormand quipped on Twitter: “The champion of the Earth is back”.
“The French are asking for a break on the implementation of the pension reform … Macron offers them a break on ecology”, also protested the head of EELV Marine Tondelier.
Remarks deemed “irresponsible” by the EELV-Nupes deputy from Paris Sandrine Rousseau, who recalls that France is in a situation of “incredible drought”, on the set of franceinfo. “We are in a situation where we are losing control, which is on the verge of a collapse”. According to her, environmental standards should not be lifted but on the contrary, they should be increased.
Ecologist MEP Karima Delli also denounces these remarks on Twitter, recalling that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is currently seizing France’s climate inaction.
The Élysée however insisted on the fact that Emmanuel Macron had not requested either a suspension or a moratorium and even less a repeal “of the current standards under discussion”.
“The president is not talking about suspension but about executing the decisions already taken before making new changes,” the same source said. “The decisions already taken constitute the most ambitious in the world to date,” it added. “He said that it was above all necessary that these standards are already applied in a homogeneous way in Europe. »
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