Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001286/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Afroditi Latinopoulou (PfE)
The obsessive promotion of the Green Deal has led to the imposition of electric transport even in critical areas such as public safety, without any serious assessment of the operational efficiency of the new technologies. In Germany, according to the Police Trade Union (DPolG), patrol vehicles are being forced to abandon missions because they run out of battery power, while police officers are left stranded at charging stations instead of responding to incidents. Similar problems are also reported in the United Kingdom.
Nevertheless, the use of electric vehicles is already expanding to police forces in other Member States, such as Greece, the Netherlands, Italy and many others, without any unified European framework for assessing the risks involved in their use in emergency responses.
In light of this:
- 1.Does the Commission consider it acceptable to put citizens’ safety at risk in order to achieve the objectives of the Green Deal?
- 2.Has any study been carried out on the operational consequences of imposing electric vehicles on Member States’ security forces? If not, why not?
- 3.Does the Commission recognise that the generalised and unconsidered application of ‘green’ policies in key areas such as policing may undermine the effectiveness of the rule of law?
Submitted: 27.3.2025