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🔥 EUROPE’S HEAT WAVE EXPOSES FAILED GREEN POLICIES
A heatwave is gripping much of Europe, with temperatures nearing 40°C (100°F) across Italy, Spain, and France.
The EU has set a legally binding target to cut emissions 55 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, but as of 2024, it has come up short on that goal, leaving a significant gap with just a few years to go.
Once again, Europe is unprepared. More Europeans die from heat each year than Americans die from gun violence, and a big difference is affordable energy for air conditioning, something Green energy policy has put increasingly out of reach.
On top of that, policies like the CSDDD and CSRD make it hard for energy companies to operate in Europe. With energy prices on the rise, the EU has succumbed to another deadly heatwave.
Germany’s household electricity prices are now the fifth highest in the world, driven by a rapid exit from nuclear and coal without sufficient alternatives, a cost environment so damaging that even Playmobil, one of Germany’s most iconic manufacturers, announced this week it is shutting down its last production facility in Bavaria and moving operations abroad.
Decades of overregulation have kept electricity expensive and energy supply unreliable. With CSDDD and CSRD, Europe is trying to export this same failed Green agenda. President Trump is standing in their way, and can protect Americans from Brussels’ overreach once and for all with a targeted executive order.
2. 🇩🇪 GERMAN ESTABLISHMENT MOVES THE GOALPOSTS
With the AfD polling at 42% in Saxony-Anhalt and poised to win an outright majority in September’s state election, Germany’s ruling parties aren’t changing their message. They’re changing the rules.
State interior ministers are exploring ways to cut AfD-led governments off from federal intelligence databases and interstate security cooperation. The stated justification is “protecting the constitution.” But the real justification is harder to miss: if an AfD interior minister gained access to these files, it would reveal just how politically motivated the years-long surveillance campaign against the party truly was.
The establishment may be severely miscalculating. The latest national polling puts AfD at 29% nationwide, ahead of the centrist CDU at 22%. Every rule change designed to wall off the opposition appears to be making it stronger.
ALSO IN THE NEWS:
- European Conservative: Heatwave in France Exposes Green Hypocrisy
- Brussels Signal: French Greens call for five days of ‘climate leave’ per year
- European Conservative: ‘Restoring’ the Rule of Law: Magyar Government To Remove President with Constitutional Change
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