European Parliament resolution on the EU’s latest flagship, the Clean Industrial Deal, goes in opposite direction to where we should be heading.
The European Parliament today voted for a resolution on the Clean Industrial Deal that continues down the path of watering down measures to stop climate change while eroding workers’ rights. The Left voted against the resolution, noting that corporate subsidies with no workers’ protection will neither stop climate change nor bring about a Just Transition as promised to European industry.
The right-wing nature of this European Parliament mandate is plain to see in this resolution, where in over 20 long paragraphs on the Clean Industrial Deal, only one even mentions workers. The climate transition will not take place without labour, yet the right in the European Parliament chooses to support the cause of capital and corporations.
MEP and former autoworker Per Clausen (Enhedslisten, Denmark) said: “The so-called Clean Industrial Deal is in fact Unclean for the environment, it is no good deal for the workers and is a sign of much of what is wrong with the current European Commission. Today’s Parliament Resolution takes the weak proposal of the Commission even further in the opposite direction than where we should be heading.”
MEP Hanna Gedin (Vänsterpartiet, Sweden) said: “As Europe develops a strategy for industry we continue to push for good working conditions, fair and generous rules on state aid and a just and comprehensive green transition. The right and the far right in EP moves forward with one foot on the break, producing poor resolutions on key strategic areas like European industry.”
