Even Prodi no longer likes the EU Green Deal:«Stop petrol cars and invest only in electric ones, what a mistake» – The video

The former prime minister and president of the European Commission explained his doubts to "Piazzapulita":«This is how the right wing triumphs»

Raise your hand if you still believe in the European Commission's environmental measures.The legislature opened in 2019, when the push from the squares of the Fridays for Future led by Greta Thunberg, is coming to an end, and many of the measures put in place by the executive led by Ursula von der Leyen within the ambitious Green Deal have been watered down or called into question.Climate changed.Not the atmospheric one, which continues to reserve a growing series of anomalous events and natural disasters at every latitude, and promises of irreparable damage to air, water and ecosystems.But the social and political one yes, at least in part.First the pandemic, then the wars on the gates of Europe changed the agenda, bringing the most immediate economic and energy concerns back to the center of the attention of citizen-voters.Until recently "rebellion" of farmers in many countries (also) against the effort asked of them to limit harmful emissions from the sector.Criticisms and doubts are often exploited - even distorting reality - by right-wing parties seeking consensus for the next European elections.Yet even on the opposite side there are those who are not at all convinced of some of the key measures developed by the EU in recent years.As Romano Prodi.

A gift to the right?

Last night the former prime minister and former president of the European Commission itself unceremoniously aired his criticisms of von der Leyen's Green Deal.It's not that paradoxically he will end up giving a triumph to the right in Europe, he asked him dryly Corrado Formigli to Clean square?«If applied without common sense, yes», the professor replied without hesitation.In what sense?“The problem is that every policy must be applied appropriately,” he explained, referring to his experience as von der Leyen's illustrious predecessor.«I have dedicated a lot of energy to the environment, from the Kyoto Protocol onwards, but the idea of ​​focusing everything on a single technology (electric, ed), or that within a few years we will no longer be able to produce internal combustion cars, I find this absolutely wrong."With the risk, Prodi added, of provoking the opposite reaction to the desired one in citizen-voters:the rejection of environmental policies.The former prime minister then criticized the ambitious green agenda of the (outgoing) Commission also from a more global perspective:«Environmental policies cannot be just Italian or just European, all together we cause 7-8% of the pollution.So it's fine if we want to be a "school ship", but be careful, we can't go beyond our possibilities", the professor's "additional" criticism of von der Leyen.That since he launched his re-nomination at the helm of the European Commission she appears to be subjected to criticism from every source every day.