Re: rubber stamp
I will help you, since you can’t answer. The largest political group in the Parliament is the EPP. They represent the “government” of Parliament. I reproduce below their recent official statement about the EU Industrial Plan, a major plank of government policy:
“ With today's plan, the European Commission initiates the beginning of its own end…… The Commission is unable to stop its regulation-centred machinery. This is evident in the overly descriptive, non-technology neutral approach to hydrogen, which will destroy any EU competitiveness compared to the US and China. With the Industrial Emissions Directive, the Commission is yet again strangling our industry to near-death, eliminating investment incentives in Europe for large corporations, but also for small and medium sized enterprises. While the Commission now tries to solve the Deal part of the European Green Deal, we are still missing the second pillar: the digital transition. Underfinancing of research and innovation in Europe and in European industry itself remains also unmentioned. We need greater support for research and innovation in Europe, this also needs to be part of the deal"
None of this sounds a *government* speaking, does it? Like a group in *control* of policy? It sounds like a minor player, raging at the dying of the light in the corner, entirely ineffectual and ignored, but putting in a plea at the end for some scraps from the emperor’s table. Which is exactly what it is. This is the *controlling* group of Parliament, and has been in control for over twenty years. Imagine how little power anybody else has.
https://www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/news/eu-industrial-plan-is-too-late-too-little
Biting the hand that feeds IT
