Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000553/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (ECR), Adrian-George Axinia (ECR), Georgiana Teodorescu (ECR), António Tânger Corrêa (PfE), Rihards Kols (ECR), Adam Bielan (ECR), Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik (ESN), Aurelijus Veryga (ECR), Ivaylo Valchev (ECR), Filip Turek (PfE), Marion Maréchal (ECR), Margarita de la Pisa Carrión (PfE), Jorge Martín Frías (PfE), Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE), Jadwiga Wiśniewska (ECR), Dominik Tarczyński (ECR), Sebastian Tynkkynen (ECR), Charlie Weimers (ECR), Beatrice Timgren (ECR), Nicolas Bay (ECR), Dick Erixon (ECR), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Kosma Złotowski (ECR), Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă (NI), Luis-Vicențiu Lazarus (NI), Klara Dostalova (PfE), Ondřej Krutílek (ECR), Fernand Kartheiser (ECR), Tomáš Kubín (PfE), Tiago Moreira de Sá (PfE), Claudiu-Richard Târziu (ECR)
The Competitiveness Compass rightly acknowledges the serious challenges the European economy faces, yet it fails to address the core issue: the excessive regulatory burden and skyrocketing energy costs driven by the European Green Deal, which is crippling European industry, driving companies offshore and eroding our strategic autonomy. Meanwhile, our global competitors – the US and China – are prioritising industrial growth and energy security over ideological constraints.
Europe cannot afford more self-imposed economic decline. We need a radical change of course.
- 1.Will the Commission acknowledge the incompatibility between the European Green Deal and saving European industrial competitiveness by initiating a process to phase out its most damaging measures to prevent further deindustrialisation?
- 2.How would the Commission justify maintaining policies that erode European competitiveness while major global economies pursue more pragmatic approaches, and will it commit to a comprehensive reassessment of climate legislation to ensure alignment with the EU’s economic growth imperatives and energy security priorities?
- 3.How does the Commission justify pursuing policies that deepen Europe’s dependency on non-EU countries for critical raw materials while undermining our industrial base, and what concrete measures will it take to ensure affordable and secure energy for European businesses, beyond an unrealistic reliance on intermittent renewables?
Submitted: 6.2.2025