Brussels, my love? Is the future of the car electric?

Published connected 20/09/2025 - 7:00 GMT+2 •Updated 10:05

Should nan prohibition connected combustion motor cars beryllium delayed? The mobility we put to firm lobbyist Connor Allen, Belgian ambiance activistic Chloé Mikolajczak and Julius Fintelmann, nan editor and laminitis of The European Correspondent.

With business increasing world title and precocious power prices, nan European car manufacture is successful situation mode. That is why nan automotive manufacture wants nan prohibition connected nan waste of combustion motor cars from 2035 to beryllium delayed?

Connor Allen says nan manufacture needs a cleaner 'runway'.

"Yes, we person title from China, yes, we person immoderate issues pinch Trump tariffs, but it's being squeezed by nan regularisation connected 1 extremity and nan user reality connected nan other," he said.

For Chloé Mikolajczak though, nan shape retired of combustion motor car is needed to reside terrible pollution.

"It's affecting people's wellness and particularly children and aged health. So if we don't besides return that into nan statement we're going to proceed to person premature deaths, thousands each twelvemonth crossed Europe and that's a monolithic problem," she said.

The sheet besides reflected connected nan Mario Draghi convention that took spot successful Brussels this week. The erstwhile European Central Bank president moreover projected to region parts of nan AI act.

"That's besides a scarecrow that manufacture likes to propulsion up to forestall further regulation," said Julius Fintelmann. "I deliberation nan AI Act is 1 illustration wherever nan EU really was up globally and group a modular and abandoning that to maine seems premature."

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