21
May
2025
Watch
Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism (debate)
Mr. President, you knew, ladies and gentlemen. Since 2021, they knew that this European Green Deal rule would stifle our SMEs with disproportionate costs. Even the Commission itself recognised, in its impact assessment, that the CBAM would particularly penalise SMEs and yet approved it; They moved on as Europe's industrial fabric sank. Now, late and bad, as they have been doing lately in each plenary session, they try to make up this disaster with patches, thresholds and exceptions, but the problem of all this is the bureaucratic monster they have created: carbon certificates, emission calculations, sanctions ... while other countries – such as China or the United States – laugh at us and, what is worse, dedicate themselves to supporting their industry and their citizens. The CBAM – like the rest of the European Green Deal – is a confiscatory and bureaucratic trap, a job-destroying machine and a highway to Europe’s deindustrialisation. We don't want thresholds, compasses or transitions. What we want is industrialization, employment, economic freedom and for the Commission to stop playing, from its offices, with the bread of all Europeans.