The government is backpedaling, once again. After Emmanuel Macron's controversial statements calling for a stop producing new environmental standards in Europe, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne assured this Saturday that there was "no pause at all in the climate ambition" of the France.

Emmanuel Macron had indeed spoken twice on the subject on Thursday and Friday when he presented projects for the reindustrialization of the France. He said that environmental standards should no longer be "added" after the implementation of the European Union's Green Deal, pleading for "stability" in this area. These remarks have France angered environmental officials and activists and questions in Brussels.



The "Green deal" proudly displayed

"You know that in recent years, under the impetus of the France and the President of the Republic, we have carried out very ambitious policies at European level. It's the 'Green deal' in particular, it's the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050," said Elisabeth Borne in Saint-Paul, on the French island of Reunion, where she ends a three-day trip on Saturday. "This legislation, it is ambitious, it allows us to meet our objectives, now we must work to implement it and it is already a very important task," she added, considering that it was not useful to "add standards to standards".

The "Green Deal" is the European Union's package of key climate texts, most of which (reform of the carbon market, end of sales of combustion engine cars, etc.) has been adopted, but some of which are still the subject of difficult negotiations.

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