Von der Leyen says EU electrification target must rise, Iran sanctions 'too early' to lift
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU must raise its current 25 percent electrification target for industry and transport to meet the bloc's climate and energy objectives. Von der Leyen told EU leaders that Europe paid an extra $32 billion for oil and gas because of the Iran war, which has driven up energy costs across the EU. She said it is too early to lift sanctions on Iran, adding the EU must first see a fundamental, verifiable change in Tehran before considering relief. Raising the electrification target and keeping sanctions in place would accelerate grid and industrial investment and keep geopolitics central to EU energy planning.
This may sound like a boring technical measure, but the German chancellor's supposed 'anti-bureaucracy' crusade would be an act of European geopolitical suicide. This is about a simple choice. Either Europeans make single market laws at the confederal level where they are most effective, or...🧵
Dave Keating26🧵...or they dismantle what's been accomplished by sending powers back to national capitals where they are least effective. Merz wants to move the EU backwards, making it less powerful and less relevant in the world at a time when Europe can least afford it. What's worse: even...🧵
Paul Tyreman 〓〓8These right wing "anti-bureaucracy" people are idiots. How much bureaucracy do they think is involved when standards are different between trading nations?
Alfredo8And no eurobonds... the world is moving and Merz is so behind that he not even know where he is. Yet he is not aware of that, sad and terrible.
Trickcyclist 🦋🏴🇪🇺5Right wingers are always inward looking myopics.
