EU’s Burdensome Green Deal Has Some in France, Germany Seeing Red

Time for a petite regulatory break, President Macron says.

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President Macron visits the Aluminium Dunkerque factory at Dunkirk, northern France, May 12, 2023. Pascal Rossignol/pool via AP

There is a famous one-word line in Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” wherein our bourgeois heroine Emma has just about had it with her doctor husband Charles’s stultifying ways: “Enough,” she gasps, in French. That exasperation seems to encapsulate the new prevailing sentiment in France and Germany as the two countries push back against the European Union’s so-called Green Deal. 

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