The traditionalist challenge to the European Green Deal

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🔬研究者:Provides a political economy lens on the EGD's fragility, useful for policy risk analysis.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights the need to anticipate and mitigate political backlash against climate policies to ensure long-term credibility.

The article investigates the systematic impact of Euro-Trumpism, as a new phenomenon of European politics, on the European Green Deal (EGD), in the context of the US repeated withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and the strong growth of influence in Europe of parties and movements oriented towards the image of a new model of national reconstruction and world order promoted by US President D. Trump. For the purposes of the study, the author uses interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, methods of political economy, the neo-cleavage theory, case study (focusing on Germany as a key European-integration country and economy), and empirical-analytical and reflexive approaches. It is substantiated that the traditionalist challenge to the EGD is directed, first of all, against the globalist dimension and content of European climate policy, and not against traditional regional or local environmental protection. It is shown that the significant strengthening of the Euro-Trumpist parties’ positions in the European Parliament and national parliaments of the EU member states in the 2020s (especially since the beginning of 2025), particularly the opportunities to influence decision-making processes in the field of climate policy through coalition agreements and increased interaction with traditional center-right parties at all levels, increases the intra-structural risks for the implementation of the EGD and poses a real threat of breaking the climate consensus at the EU level and even phasing out the EGD in the medium term. Since the relevant economic development plans and roadmaps for Ukraine's integration into the EU are related to the EGD goals, there is a need for a more systematic and critical consideration of the prospects for a gradual increase in the CO2 emissions and fossil fuel taxation in Ukraine as well as the introduction of the Carbon Adjustment Mechanism, taking into account the high and further growing risks for the implementation of the EGD.

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