European Green Deal: a blueprint for an incomplete revolution

The European Green Deal (EGD) is an unprecedentedly broad strategy for leading the European Union towards a sustainable development transition. No sector of the economy is excluded from the very wide range of EGD−related measures, which should not only lead to a carbon−neutral continent by mid−century, but also a circular, zero−pollution, green−reformed economy in its core sectors (e.g. agrifood), competitive and of high technological and social quality. The possible obstacles lie first and foremost in the harshness of the measures to be put in place for energy and climate, in particular those of the Fit−for−55 package, which will face opposition and weakening in the approval process. They also lie in the possible inadequacy of the ‘safety nets’ that the EGD itself deploys to alleviate the possible social equity setbacks of a transition governed by environmental concerns and the ‘ecological modernisation’ of the production system.