The European Green Deal announced by the European Commission is the first comprehensive plan to achieve sustainable development in any major world region. Again, the critics would regard the talk of public consultations as naive fluff. Both are urgently searching for a path of public consultations, but after the fact. The European Green Deal shows government as it should be, not government subordinated to corporate interests. Europe’s Green Deal is in fact a demonstration of successful European social democracy — in an operational rather than a narrow partisan sense.

Source: Taipei Times December 18, 2019 15:56 UTC