Emmanuel Macron has asked the EU to stop spewing out green regulations by the bucket-load, pointing out that the region won’t be able to compete with less regulated parts of the world if the rush to Net Zero continues. Will Rishi Sunak take note? The Telegraph has more.
Emmanuel Macron had a spring in his step as he donned a hard hat to join workers at an aluminium factory in Dunkirk.
The French president was there to trumpet the recent decision by ProLogium, a Taiwanese car battery maker, to establish its first overseas plant in the northern town, ploughing in €5.2 billion (£4.5 billion).
But he also had another message for his audience: that further factory investment was at risk unless France and the EU pressed pause on the reams of green laws and regulations flowing out of Brussels.
Europe had already done more than the likes of America and China, he argued, and tinkering further with standards would put it at a competitive disadvantage.
“I prefer factories that respect our European standards, which are the best, rather than those who still want to add standards and always more – but without having anymore factories,” he told the crowd this month.
Macron was underlining a speech he had made just a day earlier at the Elysee Palace. Outlining his green industrial strategy, the French president called for a “European regulatory pause”, adding: “We have already passed a lot of regulations at the European level, more than our neighbours… Now we have to execute, not make new rule changes, because otherwise we will lose all the players.”
Bruno Le Maire, the economy minister, later backed his boss up, telling French television: “There are rules, they are the most demanding on the whole planet. Rather than always wanting to reinforce them, you have to apply them.”
The shifts across the water pose searching questions for the U.K., about whether a loosening of the EU’s green transition could put British businesses at a disadvantage as well. Can a nation impose some of the strictest environmental rules in the world while protecting the competitiveness of its industrial base?
And as Europe pauses its drive towards net zero, is Britain at risk of becoming more isolated than ever?
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Drop net zero, and drop vicarious liability, the application of UK law to activities taking place in overseas countries with their own legal systems……
Or go broke……
And if this ploy gets him another term, he’ll do-a-Uie back to net zero quicker than a rat up an aqueduct! France,…Vote Le Pen! Don’t trust that self pampering twat again, ever!
Nail on the head Dinger..
He can only have 2 terms.
A very dangerous “puppet”. Beware.
I wouldn’t trust Macron as far as I could throw him. This is just tactics to cool the heat at home a little. Its the same game he’s been playing during the Russia – Ukraine troubles/war. Pretending to be the Statesman. Typical good cop – bad cop routine..
Just wanted to add. I live in France, and I can tell you that the French are pushing WEF policies at WARP speed. Right across the full spectrum..
By pushing do you mean the people are pushing for more wef policies, or the government is?
Macron and his cronies..
Here today, gone tomorrow.
As a percentage of the whole population, there appear to be a lot more clued-up ground-level French than there are Brits.
Got it.
The “French”? Surely not the French people?
Sunak has missed an opportunity here. Macron is now staking a position. If Sunak follows he looks like a follower not a leader.
Met with theee friends last night. And asked them to name ONE thing their idol Rishi has done for the country. Only one. They could not name ONE thing. All three friends over the age of 70. They were stumped.
Why would anyone take this WEF puppet seriously. Or is a clue of where the WEF is going next. One by one their puppets will decry “the green agenda”. Macron was the first to go. Who is next? Rishi?
“The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth’s climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes convection which carries warmth and water vapor up into the sky where clouds form and bring rain. In short, the Sun drives almost every aspect of our world’s climate system and makes possible life as we know” ————This statement was removed from the NASA website in 2011. —WHY?——–The entire political agenda of Sustainable Development and NET ZERO depends upon our CO2 emissions causing dangerous changes to climate and the sun playing not so much of a role in that. If this is not true then that whole political agenda collapses. —————–It will certainly collapse, as there is no evidence that our CO2 emissions are causing or will cause dangerous changes to climate. You cannot live in a green fantasy land forever, and western politicians are slowly starting to realise that.
Britain is already isolated since Boris Johnson started his industry-crippling green agenda. Sunak has carried this on and increased the hopeless position of the UK to attract business by increasing corporation tax by over 30%. This confirms the Tory party is totally anti-British. Perhaps if Sunak wanted to benefit the country while in Japan he should have provided incentives to persuade Honda to continue manufacture in the UK.
The ‘Green’ economy is very expensive, leading to higher costs and more government control and regulations, putting companies at a competitive disadvantage.
Yep and that is the whole idea. ——-Green = Anti Human and Anti Capitalist, and is the main tool in the Great Reset as espoused by the King. It is Eco Socialism for the world with climate as the excuse.