presenting his counter-project, the candidate for the presidential election 2022 criticized the fact that Mr. Macron did not shift this presidency and demanded that the Green New Deal envelope be increased by 2,000 billion euros.
Le Monde with AFP
less than a month from the beginning of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, it does not intend to let Emmanuel Macron be the only one to bring the European question in the presidential campaign of 2022. Yannick Jadot, Candidate Ecologist And pro-European affirmed, claimed Wednesday, December 8 that Emmanuel Macron benefits from the French Presidency of the European Union (EU) for “expanding the revival plan” of Green New Deal and “combat the austerity criteria”.
He also regretted that the head of state “did not make the choice to change the date of [this] presidency”, which will last the first six months of 2022, in full presidential campaign. “Emmanuel Macron has chosen a narrowed presidency, biased and cut in two by the presidential election,” said MEP at a press conference given to his Campaign HQ in Paris.
m. Jadot also wanted to remember that “Europe is an absolutely essential subject for ecologists” and a “real project of civilization”. Determining the observation that “the European project is waiting” and “took a great blow with the Brexit,” the candidate of Europe Ecology-Les Greens (EELV) presented his own counter-project of French presidency of The EU.
Almost triple the Green New Deal budget
According to him, we must first “combat the austerity criteria”, including by detaching the green investments of the Stability and Growth Pact, and “expand the European” Green New Deal ” 750 billion euros, taking it to 2 000 billion. An amount equivalent to that of the American Green New Deal, carried by President Joe Biden.
Yannick Jadot also took the opportunity to demand that “France has a strong position on the renegotiation of the carbon market”. For him, “no question of putting transport and housing”. Asking for France to be “exemplary” itself on its environmental policy, he recalled that it “is systematically attacked by European justice on air pollution, hunting, both wheels” …
MEP has also denounced “the alliance against the nature of France with Poland and Hungary to preserve its nuclear policy”. And pleaded for the country to transpose the European target of 55% “to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Emmanuel Macron must hold on Thursday, December 9 a press conference presenting the agenda, the stakes and ambitions of the French Presidency of the European Union.