Macron Calls for a Green ‘Pause’

Even Europeans are getting fed up with costly regulations.

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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!

Mr. Macron called for a “regulatory break” on environmental matters in Europe. “We’re ahead of the Americans, the Chinese or any other global power in regulatory terms,” he said. “Now we need to execute” rather than add more pages by the hundreds to the green rulebook. Note he was speaking to a room full of industrial executives on how to reverse deindustrialization and revive French manufacturing.

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