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Centre-right European People’s Party “rejects prohibitive policies such as the ban on internal combustion engines” according to his manifesto before the election.
The European Parliament elections scheduled for June 2024 have the potential to disrupt the bloc’s climate plans. It is expected that the “Greens” will lose some seats in the elections, on the contrary, the conservative parties will become stronger. The European People’s Party (EPP) is one of the largest parties in the European Parliament and could also win in the elections.
This could represent a ray of hope for internal combustion engines, as this party is a long-standing opponent of banning internal combustion engines. The Euractiv website has received its pre-election manifesto in which the party rejects the bans and the policy “will revise as soon as possible”.
Jens Gieseke, German MEP from the EPP group, warned some time ago that the decision to effectively end the sale of cars with internal combustion engines would lead to this the “Havana effect” – People would keep their conventional cars for decades and not exchange them for new electric cars. So after a while it would look like Europe in Europe.
In its approach to decarbonization, the EPP takes a position of technological openness, according to which the EU should not decide which technologies it orders for a specific goal. Instead, she should focus on achieving the goal by any means necessary.
The intention to revise the plan and ban the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines unless they are only suitable for burning synthetic fuels could have far-reaching consequences. It cannot be ruled out that there will be efforts to review other parts of the so-called Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. The “Fit for 55” package of measures contained therein threatens to cause 120 million Europeans to suffer from energy poverty.
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