Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja says he will present the Cabinet a “detailed report” on the “negative effects of the Green Deal policies” on the Romanian energy sector.
“Europe’s Green Deal” is promoted by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Burduja added that “Romania has everything it needs to be a regional leader in energy.”
“Today we are going through a critical moment for the future of our energy and Europe. The European Union’s ‘greening’ policies, although well-intentioned, risk turning our European economies into victims of bureaucratization and decisions which aren’t adapted to economic realities,” he said in a post on Facebook.
The minister recalled that the EU produced only 3% of the world’s total coal production in 2024 and emitted less than 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
“This is not a path to prosperity. President Trump showed the world yesterday that democracies are only strong when their economies are strong. And do you know what makes a strong economy? It produces safe, affordable and abundant energy! Energy that keeps factories open, prices low and puts food on the table of every family,” Burduja said.
Romania ranks first in natural gas production and that coal-fired power plants can be modernized, with low emissions and high efficiency, he said.
“We are building the future of the new Romanian nuclear program, with strategic partners such as the USA, Canada, Italy, France, South Korea and Japan.
We have dozens of hydropower projects in the works, started decades ago and which we have started to complete, and therefore the potential to be the energy engine of Eastern Europe, including in the perspective of the reconstruction of Ukraine. What can hold us back is a suffocating bureaucracy and a Green Deal that ignores the realities on the ground.
He said EPP leaders have said that a debate is needed on how and if the EU will continue the Green Deal for the coming years.
“It’s time to wake up! If we do not recover now, we risk losing the last chance to rebuild the European economy on solid foundations,” Burduja said, adding Romania “has the energy that Europe needs”.
“Romania must have the courage to call things by their name: Europeans deserve to pay less for energy, and we can offer the solution. It’s simple: massive energy production means low prices, low prices mean cheap goods and services produced/provided in the EU, i.e. a better quality of life for every Romanian and European, better paid jobs and European competitiveness. It is a simple equation that the European Commission must also accept.”
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