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EU’s Green Shift Under Threat as the Hit to Consumers Gets Real
- Pushback on transport and heating policies is building
- Looming real-world impact fuels backlash as deadlines near
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The European Union unveiled its Green Deal five years ago with the goal of making it the cornerstone of the bloc’s growth and setting the agenda for the world. Fault lines have now replaced fanfare, and risk handing leadership of the clean industrial era to the US and China.
Despite the intensifying climate crisis, a right-wing shift in European politics has stirred opposition to the plans and threatens to stall progress. The target of the pushback is on transport and heating policies, which will touch the bloc’s 450 million people more directly than anything that’s come before.