“The Green Deal is a framework that was approved in 2019. There is no exit mechanism,” Fiala told CNN Prima News on Sunday, saying the deal was to ensure that Europe did not worsen the climate. “Grandma agreed,” he stressed.
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“If the President did not like it, he should have urged the previous prime minister not to agree to something like that,” the prime minister said.
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He also admitted that he was also critical during the negotiations of the previous team. “I was convinced that approval of the Green Deal should be conditional on the core being part of clean resources,” he stressed.
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Zeman said in a Christmas speech last Sunday that he considered the agreement to be the result of ecology becoming a religion. At the same time, he described it as the main cause of rising energy prices in the Czech Republic, which he said will continue.
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According to him, the agreement orders to stop heating with natural gas in 2030 and not to drive cars with internal combustion engines in 2035. The measures mentioned by Zeman are mostly in the design phase of the EU executive. With regard to natural gas, the proposal envisages a deadline of ten years, and in the case of vehicles, 2035 is a possible end to the sale of the new cars in question.
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“If we are to at least mitigate this increase, we must break the so-called Green Deal for Europe,” Zeman said.
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Now he has identified Fiala as a priority for gas to become a transitional source, and above all the core was a clean source. “We have a great chance to enforce it,” he declared.
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Saturday’s report in the Financial Times, which stated that the European Commission wants to include nuclear and natural gas on the list of green investments, also records the prime minister’s statement. The information has already been appreciated by Czech politicians across the parties.
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