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Le Pen, Meloni and the populist climate pushback
The rise of the far right and the losses suffered by the Greens highlight what happens when climate policies are blamed for the rising cost of living.
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Ms Marine Le Pen’s (left) National Rally party has cast wind turbines as the enemy of the French countryside while Italy’s Giorgia Meloni said that “ultra-ecological fanaticism” was a threat to the economy.
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Lara Williams
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If the big winners of the European Parliament elections were far-right parties, the most notable losers were the Greens.
The consensus among experts is that while the Green Deal, Europe’s answer to the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act, is safe, new climate policies, particularly in France and Germany, will face a much harder path to adoption.
