Matteo Renzi it was the clearest and most explicit of all: the Green deal was designed in too ideological a way. It contains good principles but has ended up damaging families and businesses, conclusion: we need to review it. The electoral campaign, for the first time in twenty years, has obscured one of the crucial issues of the future Europe. The parties have little addressed the issues of climate change, energy transition, infrastructure and agriculture. Calculation or ignorance? The point is that if a progressive majority emerges from the polls on Sunday evening green strategy of the previous Commission will be reviewed, updated and corrected. If, on the contrary, a majority of conservatives and ultranationalists prevails, that strategy will be dismantled piece by piece.
The negative models
We do not know the strength and competence that each side will express between Strasbourg and Brussels. We know that the match will be played again, because it was not interrupted. The transition or stop to a different economy impacts the EU's cash flows, the mountain of billions allocated to stop climate drift and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The right has never supported the principles of the 2015 Paris Agreement from which everything emerged, not without difficulty, within the EU. It is well known that in the DNA of nationalism, progress is the biggest obstacle to social order and that denying or rejecting what climate science affirms is more convenient, as the experience of the government of Giorgia Meloni.
Their role model for the right in Europe was the US presidency of Donald Trump, which who not only tore up all the climate agreements, but used his presidency to gather support outside America. Matteo Salvini who in these hours is flaunting the message of the former President, now condemned, is useful for us to distrust him, first and foremost for his antiquated positions on the environment.
The left, never fully united on what was truly essential to halt climate change and structure a sustainable economy, has oscillated between reforms and radicalism. At the end of these European elections, the urgency of updating all the programs inspired by the Green Deal should have been placed at the very top of the message to voters. It had to explain the strengths and weaknesses of an inspiration that from the first moment did not enjoy the full consensus of the 27 countries. It would have been advantageous to stand out. Is it also stuck between calculation and lightness? The leaders should all know this together Elly Shlein ad Angelo Bonelli, that the major issues of the energy transition should not be dismissed. They have the duty to make up for the time wasted in dividing themselves, to gather consensus especially among young people who are demanding a sustainable future in the streets. Elly Shelin will not occupy the seat in Strasbourg but he will nevertheless demonstrate that the trust he will receive will be well spent on the environment, on innovative agriculture, on smog-free cities, on decarbonised industry. He risks more on this than on all the other open questions.
What interests Italians
THEItalian Climate Network evaluated the positions of the parties, finding on average a contrast between two major poles. Behind them, however, there has been a lack of communication clarity and real analyzes to convince voters to support sustainability policies. The three main issues which directly affect the lives of citizens and businesses - the directive on green homes, the electricity market with effects on prices and bills, electric cars from 2035 - have been hidden by hours of rallies and TV debates on the candidacy of General Vannacci, on the deception of those who will not occupy the European seat, on the national identity, on the expressive charlatanism of those occupying the institutions.
The millions of citizens who go to vote have found it in the President Sergio Mattarella the reference to Italy's sense of belonging to Europe and to the construction of a path that risks dissolving without fighting climate change. We have time to check what will happen in the next Parliament, because we can do one thing to be sure: the coming Commission will have to manage many billions of euros which no political representation will want to give up, green or non-green.
