tives of the Green Deal, the REPowerEU plan, which should “reduce the EU’s dependence With regard to the quality of the standards on Russian fossil fuels well before 2030”, and drafted, the issue is all the more pressing the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) designed to given that the question currently being accelerate the deployment of green techno- raised is whether the emergency rules logies in Eur. [...] INCREASED RISK OF THE TERM If the dossiers concern new regulations, then “PAUSE” BEING USED IN THE RUN-UP the President’s call is for Europe to “complete TO THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS our legislative programme with the Commis- sion, but let’s not add any more! However, the The call for a “regulatory pause” comes at a scope of the concept of “pause” appears to time when the Green Deal is being strongly. [...] The risk of being used to legiti- securing the rejection of the proposal for mise populist rhetoric51 and attacks, which an EU pesticide reduction plan at the end of are currently shifting the focus of the elec- November, the EPP may have succeeded in toral debate onto the degree of ambition of halting the momentum of the Green Deal. [...] With this the Green Deal to be deployed rapidly.60 in mind, the Conservative group adopted a Secondly, there is the question of which poli- resolution58 in May, calling for the rejection tical forces the EPP intends to ally itself with of the law on nature restoration and the pro- in order to form a majority in the future. [...] France’s concern to set an example is all The final negotiations on the revision of the the more necessary in the light of its recent Renewable Energies Directive, planned as actions in connection with the revision of part of the European Green Deal, have been the regulation on the European electri- the subject of final tensions directly attribu- city market.
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