Episode 10: An EU Love Affair with Fossil Fuel

EU Watchdog Radio

Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance

News, Politics

5 • 1 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this tenth episode, German investigative reporter Harald Schumann describes how and why many EU member states seem to still have a crush on fossil fuels. Despite the overwhelming knowledge and practical evidence of the effects of climate change, governments keep subsidizing the use of fossil fuels. Schumann and his colleagues from the pan-European journalistic platform Investigate Europe just published a series of articles that exposes this ridiculous and counter-productive policy of Europ...

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0:00.0	You're listening.
0:03.0	You're listening to EU, you're listening to EU Watchdog Radio.
0:26.6	Welcome to EU Watchdog Radio. My name is Hans Van Schare, media officer at Corporate Europe Observatory.
0:35.6	This is the last episode before a summer break, in which we focus on climate change once more,
0:42.3	simply because it's the most pressing issue of our time.
0:46.3	We focus on why there seems to be 50 shades of grey in the Green Deal.
0:51.3	As announced by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, she described the European Green Deal in the Green Deal. As announced by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, she described the European
0:57.3	Green Deal in December of 2019 as follows.
1:01.5	Today's the start of a journey.
1:03.8	This is Europe's Man on the Moon moment.
1:07.1	In this episode, German renowned journalist Harold Schumann explains why we will not be walking on the moon anytime soon.
1:15.6	He published recently together with his colleagues of the Pan-European Journalistic Network of Investigate Europe
1:21.6	a series of burning articles on how European countries are all spending billions of euro on fossil fuels.
1:30.3	The title, Dirty Subsidies, How Europe Sabotages its Climate Goals.
1:36.3	Indeed, 2020 was supposed to be the year the EU would launch its ambitious plan to tackle the climate crisis.
1:45.4	But yet the actions of many of its member states show a pattern of climate hypocrisy, writes
1:51.6	investigate Europe on their website.
1:55.6	Harold Schumann explains why direct and indirect subsidies for fossil fuels are a sort of political taboo all over Europe.
2:04.4	And why the European Energy Tax Directive is both important and completely outdated.
2:11.2	He sees two camps emerging in the business community,
2:15.5	a growing camp that takes climate change very serious
2:19.3	and another powerful camp that doesn't.
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