Everything postponed. The vote on the regulation prohibiting the registration of vehicles with internal combustion engines, gasoline and diesel, from 2035, was postponed to a later date. Yesterday morning it was due to be voted on at the meeting of the permanent representatives of the Member States and then given the definitive green light by the Council on Tuesday.
The Swedish presidency of the EU decided to stop everything, after Italy’s “no” which, added to Poland’s and the abstention of Germany and Bulgaria, would have prevented obtaining a qualified majority (55% of countries with 65% of the population represented) to approve the measure. Italy rejoices and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni talks of “Italian success”, with Rome’s position for a “sustainable and just transition, which must be carefully planned and conducted”, leaving freedom for States to follow the path they they deem more effective and sustainable. Without “closing a priori the path to clean technologies other than electricity”.
A line, the Italian one, which according to the president “has been widely accepted in Europe”. For the Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, it is “a great sign also thanks to the League”.
And this morning the deputy prime minister and minister is on the front page of the Financial Times Weekend Europe, in the article that gives ample space to the European decision to postpone the shutdown of diesel and gasoline engines from 2035. political sentiment was fundamentally built by the leader of the League with some colleagues from the Old Continent, starting with the German Volker Wissing, who, not by chance, came to MIT in person on January 31, 2023 for a bilateral meeting. According to the Porta Pia Dicastery, Italy reaffirms itself with a central role in Europe in protecting jobs and businesses threatened by Chinese hegemony.
Source: IL Tempo
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