MEPs push homegrown technology for green energy
January 23, 2025
MEPs in the European Parliament’s informal Cleantech Friendship Group (CFG) want to see energy and technology sovereignty play a stronger role in the EU’s competitiveness strategy.
“The best way for us, as Europeans, to know peace again is to weaken the centre of gravity of the Russian regime,” said Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, a French MEP from the Socialists and Democrats Group who co-chairs the CFG. “We need to have homegrown energy with homemade technology.”
Pellerin-Carlin was speaking on March 6 at the launch of the CFG’s programme of activities for the 2024-29 parliamentary mandate, an event attended by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
The group has doubled in size since its creation in 2022 and now includes 32 MEPs from 14 EU states. Politically, they come from the Socialists and Democrats Group, the European People’s Party (EPP), the Greens, Renew Europe and the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.
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