https://www.politico.eu/article/european-peoples-party-car-engines-border-guards-climate-security/

EU conservatives (that might get more power after the elections) propose dropping the ban on ICE cars. Wooohoooo! But at the same time it seems they are not planning on ending the carbon credits. 🤔

Also making Europol 3x as big is... not great.

quotes:

"the EPP says Europol — the bloc’s crime-fighting agency — should be “significantly” expanded by tripling its staff from 650 officials today to 3,000 as part of scaled-up efforts to combat drug trafficking and terrorist threats. "

"Instead of forcing the shift to electric cars, the EPP says it will rely on “innovative concepts and market-based instruments for climate protection with emissions trading, the expansion of renewable energies and a circular economy,” adding that it wants to “further develop” the Green Deal — von der Leyen’s big package of climate laws."