Peter Liese and Lídia Pereira:

Young generations should not only inherits a huge amount of debt but a modern infrastructure / Investment in climate and digitalisation / Letter of ENVI committee members

“It is very important that ‘Next Generation EU’ does not mean that the young generations inherits a huge amount of debts but that we invest in future proof infrastructure” say Peter Liese, environmental spokesperson of the largest political group (EPP/Christian Democrats) in the European Parliament and Lídia Pereira responsible rapporteur for the EPP in ENVI and chairperson of the young EPP (YEPP).

The two EPP ENVI members support a cross-party letter of influential members of the ENVI committee ahead of the Council. “It is very important to show solidarity and give a clear signal to the market. That is why we support the Commission’s plan for the recovery. However, we want to be sure that the money is really spend on fighting climate change purposes. We encourage a recovery that is strongly supported in the European Green Deal, digitalization and European reindustrialization.