The European Union cannot "kill its industry due to climate change," Manfred Weber, president of the European People's Party, told Euronews' flagship programme Europe Today, as a brutal heatwave sweeping across Europe claimed around 1,300 lives and reignited the debate over the bloc's climate policies.
Weber chairs the European People's Party, the largest political force in Europe, which has in recent years rolled back parts of the Green Deal — the package of policies designed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the bloc by 2050 — in a bid to prioritise industrial competitiveness.
