MEP Radan Kanev, who gave a public lecture at the University of Economics – Varna on Monday, said that few people in Bulgaria know what the Green Deal actually is, and those unfamiliar with it include politicians at the highest levels. As a member of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Kanev commented on inflation, the crisis of purchasing power and the future of the Green Deal.
"When talking about the Green Deal, it should be clear that we are talking about more than 20 bills, some of them controversial, and about a common long-term policy with very serious European funding," Kanev said. He said that the big question is whether Bulgaria will be able to get involved at all, to use the funding and modernization opportunities for business in the next decade. In a situation of permanent power vacuum, the answer is more likely to be no, the MEP pointed out. He added that there are many deadlines ranging between 2026 and 2032.
Some Bulgarian governments have prepared projects in the past, however, their development and their actual implementation in cooperation with businesses are two very different things, the MEP said. He concluded that without a stable government, Bulgaria will most likely fail to benefit from the financial opportunities that the Green Deal has to offer.
In his work as an MEP, Kanev is engaged as a direct rapporteur on another environmental legislation - the Industrial Emissions Directive, one of the EU's largest pieces of legislation. The document brings together seven other directives that have been in force since the 1990s and were merged in 2010.
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