Climate: what about Macron’s “European regulatory break”?

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Emmanuel Macron calls for a “regulatory break” on the environment, but more investment. The right demands a “moratorium” for farmers. The debate is mounting.

By Emmanuel Berretta

En presenting his plan for the reindustrialisation of France, the President of the Republic called for a “European regulatory break”. Not that he disavows the Commission’s climate package (a set of more than ten texts known as the “Green Pact”), but he wants us to stick to what has been agreed, without adding to it. in the future. The urgency, in his eyes, is the rapid execution of the agreed rules and especially the mobilization of funding. “Otherwise, the risk we run is to be the best bidder in terms of regulation and the lowest bidder in terms of financing. […] We implement what we have decided, but we stop adding to it. Faced with the Americans’ Inflation Reduction Act, the threat of industrial relocation is not to be taken…