Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has lashed out at the EU’s ban on the sale of new fossil fuel-powered car engines after 2035 as a “self-destructive” policy, and vowed to press Brussels “to correct these choices”.
Addressing the powerful Italian industrial association Confindustria on Wednesday, the prime minister called the “forced conversion” to electric propulsion of the entire EU market for new light vehicles within a decade “not very smart as a strategy”.
“The green transition cannot mean destroying thousands of jobs, or dismantling entire industrial segments that produce wealth and employment,” Meloni said, as she slammed the “disastrous effects” of the European “Green Deal” and its “ideological approach”.