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Asked by POLITICO whether or not Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is a inexperienced champion, Thunberg shook her head and replied “no.”
The 21-year-old founding father of the Fridays for Future motion was later detained as Belgian authorities moved in to interrupt up the demonstration.
Among the demonstrators gathering at a simultaneous demonstration exterior the Parliament on town’s Place du Luxembourg have been Commission workers annoyed with the sluggish progress on local weather motion.
“I labored instantly on the trilogues of the surroundings motion program, so I understand how difficult it may be to get issues achieved,” stated one staffer, granted anonymity to talk freely.
“There’s numerous instruments the establishments have now to combat local weather change, however for the reason that election there’s been numerous backtracking,” this staffer stated. “It’s now all about competitiveness and the ‘clear industrial deal,’ no matter which means. The urgency has been misplaced — the Parliament has shifted to the correct, the Commission in some ways has shifted to the correct — and dialogue of the local weather has light into the background.”
According to Simone Tagliapietra, an economist and vitality skilled at Bruegel suppose tank, “we’ve seen an incapability of the European governments to part out subsidies to fossil gasoline or at the very least to make them extra focused.”
