18
Dec
2024
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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)
Mr President, Vice-President Ribera, this is a necessary debate that we deserve, which this House deserves, on the economic impact of the European Green Deal, but, precisely because it is important, it deserves to be an intellectually honest debate. First of all, do our economic problems in Europe in recent years have to do with green regulation or do they just have to do with our dependence on fossil fuels, with an energy crisis that caused gas prices to escalate abruptly and with the end of a model that will not return, which is an industrial model based on easy and cheap gas from Russia? In fact, the countries that have deployed renewable energies the fastest, as is the case in Spain, are the ones that today have the best macroeconomic data. Secondly, it is a debate that we need to be consistent and in which those of us who have made this regulation take charge. Everyone is using the European Green Deal as a growth strategy, and we all do what we know how to do: China uses the state; The United States uses the market by doping it, and in Europe we are regulating it, a regulation that has to be smart, predictable, effective ... and that is not enough. And that's what we need to discuss: whereas it needs investments and compensation mechanisms, with industrial policy for this mandate; This should be the debate we deserve.