Carl Deconinck has an interesting Brussels Signal piece on trenchant criticisms of European green energy policies made by Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.
Green energy policies are destroying Europe: Belgian PM De Wever
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has come out against European “green” policies, accusing them of causing de-industrialisation.
Speaking on the evening of January 29 at The Future of Europe, an event run by Belgian newspapers De Tijd en L’Echo, De Wever was highly critical of earlier decisions on the production of energy, which he said made everything more expensive and harmed the European economy.
The whole piece is well worth reading as an extremely belated recognition that Europe's weaknesses are self-inflicted. The EU isn't mentioned, but there do seem to be hints that some senior politicians prefer to direct their criticisms at 'Europe' rather than lose them in the EU swamp.
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has come out against European “green” policies, accusing them of causing de-industrialisation.
Speaking on the evening of January 29 at The Future of Europe, an event run by Belgian newspapers De Tijd en L’Echo, De Wever was highly critical of earlier decisions on the production of energy, which he said made everything more expensive and harmed the European economy.
The whole piece is well worth reading as an extremely belated recognition that Europe's weaknesses are self-inflicted. The EU isn't mentioned, but there do seem to be hints that some senior politicians prefer to direct their criticisms at 'Europe' rather than lose them in the EU swamp.
According to De Wever, this exposed all Europe’s weaknesses and made things “extremely complicated with environmental rules that make it impossible to provide for our own energy needs, that make it impossible to mine for rare minerals in Europe”. The continent also has “no military capacity”.
At the same time, China is popping up in Africa and South America, where there is almost no European presence.
“We made our life extremely hard. We’ve made dogmatic choices against nuclear energy which was the stupidity of the century,” he said.
At the same time, China is popping up in Africa and South America, where there is almost no European presence.
“We made our life extremely hard. We’ve made dogmatic choices against nuclear energy which was the stupidity of the century,” he said.
2 comments:
Belated is the word.
James - and it could be too late.
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