Presentation
The European elections open up a crucial period for redefining the priorities of the European institutions over the next five years, and for ensuring the credibility of the EU's commitment to the ecological transition laid down in the previous mandate by the European Green Deal, which led to an unprecedented update of the European legislative framework for the ecological transition. This Study takes stock of the legislative and regulatory texts of the last five years and identifies priorities for further EU environmental action in the next mandate.
Key Messages
- The lack of progress in relation to the initial promises of the Green Deal on the agriculture and food transition calls for this issue to be revisited during the next European term of office. This sector cannot remain on the sidelines of environmental action, as it is so crucial to climate and biodiversity issues and must transform itself to ensure its own resilience and viability.
- The acceleration of climate action will depend on the ability to provide stronger responses to the distributional challenges raised by the ecological transition; the accessibility of green low-carbon solutions for citizens must be placed at the heart of the EU's action.
- In a context where Europe's energy and material resources are very limited, the EU should build its industrial strategy on a high level of environmental and social requirements.
- A debate must be launched rapidly on the means of financing the ecological transition at European level, at a time when the amounts to be invested raise the question of solidarity between Member States and as the European recovery plan expires in 2026.
- The further development of a European diplomacy linked to the challenges of ecological transformation should be a priority during the new term of office in order to accelerate the transition in Europe and in the world and to contribute to resolving the points of tension linked to the transition agenda.
