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Oct
2025
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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)
Mr President, are you surprised that in just three months we have come to vote on three no-confidence motions against Ursula von der Leyen, initiated by different political groups? One of the main criticisms of the Commission in these motions concerns the infamous Green Deal and its destructive effects on the European economy and industry. Today we are analyzing the situation of the automotive industry and we cannot do it without mentioning how affected this area has been by the Green Deal policies: closed factories, hundreds of thousands of people left without jobs, increasing costs for the production of cars, and even more, the appearance on the market of a dangerously cheap competitor, China. Just today it was voted here, in this plenary, to help Germany and Belgium with money because of the closure of factories in the automotive industry. On the sixth place in Europe in car production, Romania is among the most affected states. As we debate in plenary today, 200 workers at a factory in Dej have just lost their jobs. Thousands more went through layoffs last month. The Green Deal must be urgently suspended and the European economy saved.