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

Published on 20/09/2025 - 7:00 GMT+2

Should the prohibition connected combustion motor cars beryllium delayed? The question we enactment to firm lobbyist Connor Allen, Belgian clime activistic Chloé Mikolajczak and Julius Fintelmann, the exertion and laminitis of The European Correspondent.

With concern increasing planetary contention and precocious vigor prices, the European car manufacture is successful situation mode. That is wherefore the automotive manufacture wants the prohibition connected the merchantability of combustion motor cars from 2035 to beryllium be delayed?

For Connor Allen, the manufacture needs a cleaner 'runway' and a postponement of 5 years.

"Yes, we person contention from China, yes, we person immoderate issues with Trump tariffs, but it's being squeezed by the regularisation connected 1 extremity and the user world connected the other," helium said.

For Chloé Mikolajczak though, the signifier retired of combustion motor car is needed to code terrible pollution.

"It's affecting people's wellness and particularly children and aged health. So if we don't besides instrumentality that into the 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 the Mario Draghi league that took spot successful Brussels this twelvemonth wherever the erstwhile ECB president adjacent projected to intermission parts of the AI act.

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

Watch "Brussels, my love?" successful the subordinate above.