“To argue otherwise was simply an ideological madness that we will work to correct,” Meloni said. Reducing pollution should not be done “at the expense of economic and social sustainability, [but] defending and promoting European production and safeguarding tens of thousands of jobs.”
She promised to “review the most ideological rules within the Green Deal and ensure technological neutrality.”
“No one has ever denied that electric [vehicles] can be part of the solution to decarbonize transport,” but “we want to protect nature with people in it,” she added, noting that “in recent years the opposite has happened and human activities have too often been considered harmful to nature.”
The 2035 ban was approved last year, but has become part of a blowback against green policies seen in this year’s EU election.
