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Hospodářské noviny | The Green Deal may have been a topic of the European elections, but there is nothing to be done about it anymore

Viktor Daněk, deputy director of EUROPEUM Institute, commented for Hospodářské noviny's newsletter Directors of Europe on the future of the Green Deal after the recent European Parliament elections.
20. June 2024

The Czech fairy tales about the abolition of the Green Deal have come to an end with the elections, and we are returning to reality, in which the next European Commission is likely to propose new climate targets for 2040. This will be neither surprising nor ground-breaking. The intention is based on the logic of the Climate Law (which, incidentally, was also supported by the government of Andrej Babiš): the aim is to give business a clear view by the next election in 2029 of what it can count on in the next decade. The right question to ask about the new targets is not "if" we should come up with them, but "what" they should look like.

You can read the full commentary here in the chapter "Evropa podle...".

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