Is Frans Timmermans brave or crazy?
On Wednesday, the executive vice president of the European Commission will lay out the most ambitious raft of climate legislation ever launched, anywhere. But already he s anticipating problems.
“We’ll get massive pushback,” he told CNN on Thursday. “Any fundamental transition will get us a lot of pushback.”
The Fit for 55 program is a mega-package of a dozen regulatory instruments aimed at cutting EU greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, a key step toward the long-term goal of becoming climate neutral by mid-century.
Making it happen will impact the personal choices and bank accounts of Europeans of every class. The EU will demand changes to everything from the cars people drive, to how they heat their homes, whether they ll be able to take a cheap flight on holiday, and even if their current jobs will exist in the new clean and green economy. Brussels is well aware that if it gets the balance wrong, the result could be a
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