Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001285/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Siegbert Frank Droese (ESN)
at the heart of the European Green Deal is the EU’s plan to become climate neutral by 2050. This was proposed by the Commission in 2019 and became EU law in 2021. A study published in 2020 by McKinsey entitled ‘How the European Union could achieve net-zero emissions at net-zero cost’ presents the EU’s decarbonisation plan as sensible and feasible. However, this is the same consultancy company that was involved in massive scandals both in France under Macron and in Germany in the Ministry of Defence under Ursula von der Leyen. In each scandal McKinsey was accused of maintaining excessively close ties with the government and charging large sums.
- 1.Did the Commission itself carry out a cost-benefit analysis of its plan to make the EU climate neutral by 2050?
- 2.Did the Commission engage a consultancy firm to carry out a cost-benefit analysis before the plan was introduced?
- 3.Why did the Commission engage McKinsey to prepare a report on the feasibility of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 despite the scandals surrounding this consultancy firm?
Submitted: 27.3.2025