Italy’s industry minister said the “Green Deal” EU ban on the sale of new combustion engine cars after 2035 had created a “grave crisis” for European carmakers, and must be urgently reviewed and revised.
Adolfo Urso, a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, warned hundreds of thousands of European car manufacturing jobs were at risk unless Brussels eased its ambitious environmental goals for the automotive sector.
“The road map of the Green Deal, as it was designed, has already demonstrated its contradictions with the collapse of the European electric vehicle market and the grave crisis of European carmakers,” Urso said in an interview. “The data speaks for itself. It’s already clear the road map . . . is not sustainable.”