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Europe's Recipe for Disaster: The Von der Leyen Program
by Drieu Godefridi
August 2, 2024 at 5:00 am
This reduction of greenhouse gas emissions structures and determines the whole of the Commission's program, because all human activity -industrial, commercial and private -- emits greenhouse gases. In fact, in a program document published by the Commission in February 2024, already under the aegis of von der Leyen, are plans to invest 1.5 trillion euros per year in decarbonizing the European Union, and to this end take authoritarian measures in all areas of human activity. The amount is equivalent to 10% of Europe's GDP -- every year. Apparently this policy is the uncompromising model found in every party in Germany, but apart from a war effort, there is no objective of any kind that has ever required the diversion of 10% of a continent's GDP by political decree.
■ European funds, which are distributed to EU member states in various ways, will henceforth be "conditional on respect for the rule of law"... In other words, any deviation from the EU's ideological line, in any area, will be subject to financial sanctions - as is already happening with Hungary. This new direction for the EU will lead to