Emmanuel Macron requested this Thursday “a European regulatory parenthesis” in terms of environmental standards, considering that the European Union had done “more than all its neighbors” and that now “it needed stability”.
“Now we have to execute. We must not make any new changes to the rules, because we will lose all the players,” he pleaded. Otherwise, the “risk” is “being the highest bidder in terms of regulation and the lowest bidder in terms of funding.”
The wrath of environmentalists
Green MEP David Cormand quipped on Twitter: “The champion of Earth is back.”
The Élysée, however, insisted that Emmanuel Macron had not requested a suspension or a moratorium, much less a repeal “of the current regulations that are under discussion.”
“The president does not speak of suspension but of executing the decisions already made before making new changes,” said the same source. “The decisions already made are the most ambitious in the world to date,” he added. “He said that it was above all necessary that these rules are already applied in a homogeneous way in Europe”.
Source: BFM TV
