The EU’s Largest Party Wants to Save Combustion Engines in Green Revamp
- European People’s Party aims to agree strategic agenda
- EPP’s Liese says EU must support industry in climate push
A tubocharged direct injection diesel engine.
Photographer: Miles Willis/Bloomberg
This article is for subscribers only.
The European Union’s largest political party is set to urge the bloc to revise its car emissions rules in order to keep the combustion engine alive past 2035 as it aims to boost industrial competitiveness during the ambitious green shift.
The European People’s Party will reaffirm its backing for the EU’s binding goals to cut greenhouse gases by 55% this decade from 1990 levels and to reach climate neutrality by the middle of the century. But it wants the bloc to do more to protect its companies and households, according to a draft strategy for the next five years seen by Bloomberg.