France’s Le Maire Says EU Must Keep Combustion-Engine Ban Plan

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the European Union must stick to a plan to ban new combustion-engine cars by 2035, pushing back against threats from Germany and Italy to block the change.

“We can’t say there is a climate emergency but retreat from the transition to electric vehicles,” Le Maire said Monday on France Info television. “We are ready to fight on this as it is an environmental mistake and an economic mistake.”