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European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans presented the Green Deal as a do-or-die moment in European history (Photo: European Parliament)

Outside shocks supercharge the EU Green Deal — for now

European speeches rarely excite. The EU's lawmaking process is incremental and disjointed, and the stakes are often obfuscated by detail and too many acronyms.\n \nBut when European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans, on December 13 2019, had to convince the European Parliament to approve the landmark Green Deal, Europe's overarching policy to become the world's first "climate-neutral bloc" by 2050, he brought out the big guns.\n \n"We choose to go for climate neutrality in 2050 and d...

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans presented the Green Deal as a do-or-die moment in European history (Photo: European Parliament)

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

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