This line of reasoning is also picked up by Martin Porter in his contribution ‘Making climate neutrality the galvanising heart of a new economic agenda for Europe’. He proposes to make the vision of a climate neutral Europe by the mid-century the centre-piece of the Union’s new policy agenda. Tackling the sustainability crisis could be the way to reconnect the EU’s core principles and purpose to a genuinely popular idea, one that is rooted in economic innovation and modernisation as much as it is in shared values and common interests.
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