The EPP remains committed to the core of the Green Deal and in particular to the climate targets
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Peter Liese: But we need more deal, less bureaucracy and more openness to technology
“As Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, we continue to support the core of the Green Deal. In particular, the climate targets for 2030 and the goal of climate neutrality for 2050 are not up for discussion. But we need more ‘deal' in the Green Deal. The interests of the economy, especially industry, agriculture and SMEs, must be better taken into account. The Green Deal must be implemented with less bureaucracy and more technological openness," emphasized Liese, environmental policy spokesperson for the largest political group in the European Parliament (EPP, Christian Democrats). An important symbol of this is technological openness in the decarbonization of cars, Liese continues: "The existing legislation requires that new cars must no longer emit CO2 from their exhaust pipes from 2035. This de facto excludes the combustion engine, even if it runs on completely climate-neutral fuels. We want to change this. A delegated act, which the German Transport Minister Wissing has forced through, is not enough; the basic legal act must be amended accordingly."
Peter Liese on Future EU Climate and Environmental Policy
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We Need More Deal in the Green Deal / Unleashing Program for Climate Protection Instead of Detailed Regulations and Bureaucracy
"We need more deal in the Green Deal. Instead of detailed regulations and too much bureaucracy, we need to help the industry implement investments in climate neutrality through an unleashing package for climate protection," explained the environmental spokesperson of the largest group in the European Parliament (EPP, Christian Democrats), CDU Member of Parliament Dr. Peter Liese, ahead of the new European Parliament's constitution and the decision on the future President of the Commission.
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Commission must postpone deforestation regulation and then fundamentally revise it
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Peter Liese: Goal correct, but implementation far too bureaucratic / Letter from Biden administration shows urgency
“The European Commission absolutely must postpone the entry into force of the deforestation regulation and then use the transitional period to reduce bureaucracy in the text," demanded Dr. Peter Liese, environmental spokesperson for the largest political group in the European Parliament (EPP, Christian Democrats). The aim of the regulation is to be fully supported, the MEP continued: "We must do something about deforestation worldwide and take our responsibility seriously. It is unacceptable for areas the size of eleven soccer pitches to fall victim to deforestation per minute. However, the regulation has been turned into a bureaucratic monster by a majority of Greens, Social Democrats, Leftists and French Liberals. Many small farmers around the world and even small forest owners in the European Union cannot work with the text. Even the preparatory work that the Commission should have carried out has not been done. In addition, third countries are complaining massively about the legislation, including countries that are pursuing the same goal as we are, namely to stop deforestation. Most recently, in a letter dated May 30, the Biden Administration from the U.S. urged the Commission to postpone the entry into force.”
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Commission Communication on the Health Union
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Major breakthroughs in the past five years / Further progress desperately needed after the election
“We achieved a major breakthrough in European Health Policy during the last mandate. This was not only due to COVID, already before the pandemic started, the Commission accepted the idea of the EPP-group and created the Cancer Action Plan. This is so successful that representatives of other diseases want a copy-paste. We as EPP support an action plan for cardiovascular diseases as well as for diseases like Parkinson and Alzheimer”, said Peter Liese, health policy spokesperson of the biggest parliamentary group (EPP Christian Democrats), after the publication of Commission communication through Vice President Margaritis Schinas.