{"id":1858,"date":"2025-07-10T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/press-release\/europe-need-to-stay-committed-to-the-green-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:38:29","slug":"europe-need-to-stay-committed-to-the-green-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/statement\/europe-need-to-stay-committed-to-the-green-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe need to stay committed to the Green Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We hear a lot about competitiveness these days. Of course we want European businesses to succeed. Other countries have put in place policies that favour their own companies, and that\u2019s not fair. But green policies are not to blame. <\/span><\/p>

In fact, the European Green Deal was introduced precisely as an economic growth strategy.<\/span><\/p>

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It stimulates investment in green technologies, research, and innovation.<\/span><\/p>

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It promotes an efficient, circular economy by reducing waste, reusing materials, and extending product lifecycles.<\/span><\/p>

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It\u2019s projected to create millions of \u201cgreen jobs\u201d across sectors, from renewable energy installation and maintenance to circular economy businesses and sustainable construction. <\/span><\/p>

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And by accelerating the shift to renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency, it will reduce our reliance on imported fossil fuels, enhancing our energy security (and saving us a LOT of money). Dismantling the Green Deal now will only damage our competitiveness. <\/span><\/p>

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What\u2019s more, those responsible for attacking it are now calling for us to outsource climate action to third countries, basically paying others to do our homework for us.<\/span><\/p>

We\u2019re talking about investing billions and billions of Euros outside Europe, instead of investing that money in decarbonising our own economy… basically investing in being outcompeted by others in the next decades.<\/span><\/p>

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But what do I know? I\u2019m just an MEP. <\/span><\/p>

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Let\u2019s ask the countless companies, investors, financial institutions, service providers, economists, national federations and trade associations who have written to the European Commission, asking it to protect these important rules.<\/span><\/p>

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They are clear: pursuing a net-zero economy will make us richer and is despereately needed to be able to compete with China and the US. And we won\u2019t have to destroy the planet while doing so. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Backtracking now would come at a huge cost for us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}