'Regulatory Break' in Green Laws to Help Industry

I am not accustomed to seeing good proposals from France, but here goes: Macron Calls for 'Regulatory Break' in Green Laws to Help Industry 

Addressing a crowd of industrialists at the Élysée Palace on Thursday, Macron presented the pillars of the future French "green industry" law.

To speed up industrial processes and achieve the objectives already set, Macron called for "a European regulatory pause" on environmental constraints.

"We are implementing what we have decided, but we must stop adding to it," the president said in a speech on Thursday.

"The risk we run is, basically, of being the best performers in terms of regulation and the worst performers in terms of financing," he added.

Reaching the targets already set at EU level "requires a certain stability so that our companies can plan ahead", Industry Minister Roland Lescure told EURACTIV France.

Macron Calls for a Green 'Pause'

The Wall Street Journal reports Macron Calls for a Green 'Pause'

These are strange days when even Europe is starting to doubt the wisdom of its green agenda. Witness a speech last week by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he suggested that Europe may already have enough environmental regulation and doesn't need more. Sacre bleu!