From green cars to the Stability Pact, what Italy has achieved in the EU Council (and what it hasn’t) – Corriere.it
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Italy can be said to be very satisfied with the conclusions of the European Council, said the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, at the end of the summit. The game on biofuels is not lost at all, in the meantime the game on technological neutrality, which is the condition for recognizing biofuels as well, has been won, she added. The stop to heat engines from 2035 was one of the most important dossiers for Italy which was pressing for a derogation on biofuels, which has not yet been taken into consideration. We will demonstrate that biofuels can be equally zero-emission technology and we will see what happens, Meloni added in a press point in Brussels.
Berlin’s victory over e-fuels
Instead, Germany’s request to save thermal engines powered by synthetic fuels, the so-called e-fuels, passed. The idea of arriving in the coming months to an ad hoc regulation developed by Brussels to ensure that after 2035 e-fuel vehicles can continue to be registered. A solution that leaves Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in the minority and therefore with no more possibility of blocking the final ratification of the text by the twenty-seven member states. The German Minister of Transport, Volker Wissing, explained that the EU had responded to the German government’s counter-proposal of Thursday 23 March and now some technical and legal questions for a solution still need to be established. The German goal is not to hinder the approval of newly registered vehicles with internal combustion engines that run exclusively on synthetic fuels even after 2035.
Stability Pact
Another decisive game for Italy is the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact. On this Rome seeks the shore of Paris. It seems to me that there is a broad alignment on this matter, said the Prime Minister after the bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, the first face-to-face between the two after the tensions that erupted over the migrant affair.
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