HEADLINE: Europe's Fading Net Zero Ambitions and the Rise of Anti-Immigration Sentiment GUEST NAME: Joseph Sternberg SUMMARY: Joseph Sternberg highlights Europe's growing disillusionment with net-zero climate policies, driven by escalating costs and vote
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Europe's Fading Net Zero Ambitions and the Rise of Anti-Immigration Sentiment
GUEST NAME: Joseph Sternberg
SUMMARY: Joseph Sternberg highlights Europe's growing disillusionment with net-zero climate policies, driven by escalating costs and voters' unwillingness for lifestyle sacrifices. He notes the German Green Party's decline and the rise of populist, anti-climate parties like AfD. Sternberg also details Britain's "remigration" movement, a massive anti-immigration protest reflecting widespread discontent with government migration policies and perceived lack of patriotism.
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| 0:30.1 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:34.3 | I welcome my colleague Joseph Sternberg, |
| 0:37.0 | member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He writes political |
| 0:38.8 | economics from London, observing net zero, a quest not so many years ago by all of the Europeans. |
| 0:47.7 | I remember them gathering at Glasgow, where Boris Johnson, then the PM, made a vow about net zero. However, Joe, a very good evening |
| 0:57.7 | to you. I come to you with a detail from the most recent state election in Germany, West Germany. |
| 1:04.7 | North Rhine-West failure, largest of the German states, 18 million people of the 81 million, |
| 1:13.9 | in Germany. This is coal mining in the old days and manufacturing agriculture bond. It's big. The vote Sunday showed a loss in confidence |
| 1:25.0 | in the Green Party from 20% previously to 13.5%. Maybe they went to AFD. |
| 1:32.8 | Maybe they just didn't show up, but there's no fever for Greens, as there were, was for many |
| 1:40.8 | years. The AFD is taking up a lot of that fever. |
| 1:44.8 | However, we're focused on the Greens. |
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