Regarding the EU strategy to boost industrial competitiveness, trade and quality jobs, I stated in this mandate:

„It’s a shame that it took the US to take action for Europe to realize that it’s running after ecological butterflies, instead of stopping its deindustrialization. It’s even worse that, instead of taking action, at least now, the European Commission clings to baseless accusations against Washington.

The US is doing what it needs to do to secure its industrial production base in the new geopolitical, technological and environmental context.

From Brussels, on the other hand, grandiose plans about „zero pollution” fly, without having an answer to the almost total dependence on imports of critical raw materials and the lack of factories for the industries of the future or highly qualified labor.

It is necessary for the EU to concretely support its enterprises, not to debate the transformation of the unrealistic Green Deal into a belated Green Deal Industrial Plan”.

In the same sphere, the titles of questions that I addressed to the European Commission are, I think, relevant: „The inflationary risk of the energy transition” and „For a socially fair climate transition”.

Also, the risk of the impact of ecological measures on Romanian agriculture led me to react:

„I share the farmers’ concern caused by the imposition of unviable objectives, such as taking 10% of agricultural land out of production.

What measures does the Commission envisage to ensure that the green transition is not done against European farmers or by ignoring their interests, but with them?”

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