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The President of France’s Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella, will send a letter to the President of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, asking to join forces to end the Green Deal.
Bardella, chairman of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group at the European Parliament, will “suggest that we mutualise forces and together look to suspend the green deal” along with the EPP, he said in his yearly address to the press.
The letter, to be sent “in the next few hours” on Monday, will also be addressed to hard-right Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group co-presidents René Aust and Stanisław Tyszka and far-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki.
Bardella has long vowed to “suspend” the Green Deal, but it is the first time he has proactively prodded his conservative counterparts in yet new evidence of an alternative, right-leaning majority taking shape in the European Parliament.
Back in October, this new right-to-far-right coalition successfully joined forces to pass a non-binding resolution in the European Parliament about the rigged Venezuelan election.
Bardella has repeatedly said he wants the EU ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035 to be dropped altogether. He also said all other Green Deal “constraints” must be “reexamined. ”
Bringing the Green Deal to a halt “is a reaction to incredibly attractive measures Donald Trump is putting in place for the [US] economy and firms,” Bardella said.
The European Green Deal, once Europe’s flagship pro-environment programme, has been questioned in the past year. Lawmakers from centrist Renew to the far right, including the EPP, have raised concerns that it would hamper economic growth.
In November 2024, the EPP provoked the fury of centrist and social-democratic lawmakers by siding with the far right to weaken anti-deforestation rules.
RN MEP Fabrice Leggeri told Euractiv that the Patriots and ECR fully support suspension, and even the EPP’s ‘soft’ right is starting to “wake up.” He also said some EPP MEPs have nudged their far-right counterparts to “address the question.”
Just last week, Polish conservative Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose country is heading the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, called for a “full and very critical review” of all Green Deal laws. He blamed European environmental regulation for high energy prices and a continent-wide loss of competitiveness.
Senior EPP figures, including Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and German chancellor-hopeful Friedrich Merz, have made similar claims.
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