BRUSSELS — Europe’s conservatives aren’t helping the economy with their constant demands for tweaks to the bloc’s green rulebook, the European Union’s climate chief told POLITICO.
Wopke Hoekstra’s main task in the new European Commission, which took office earlier this month, is to ensure the bloc’s climate ambitions go hand in hand with industrial revival.
But that won’t entail weakening existing green legislation — on the contrary. To support its struggling industrial sectors, the EU must stick with the climate rules agreed in the last five years, he insisted.
“Many companies are asking for predictability and staying the course rather than changing the rules of the game simply because they cannot cope,” he said in an interview on Monday afternoon.
