(Finance) – Italy together with 4 other European countries – Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Portugal – presented a document that he asks the combustion engines to stop slipping to 2040 from 2035 and, consequently, lowering the target emissions reduction of CO2, in 2035, at 90% 100% proposed by the Commission and the European Parliament.
The document advocated by these five countries has been circulated, in view of the meeting of the EU Council on the environment scheduled for Tuesday 28 June.
Italy joined the initiative because it aims at get changes to the text on commercial vehicles, biofuels and niche productions. A request recently supported by companies and trade unions in the automotive supply chainwho ask for at least a percentage of less than 100% of the phase-out.
This topic was recently discussed at a table at MISE, where the positions of the Ministers of the Draghi government do not seem unanimous. The more exuberant approach of the MIMS owner Giovannini is contrasted by the caution of the ministers Giorgetti and Cingolani, who admitted that a more gradual approach is being discussed.