Boyan Rashev: Brussels' goals for green transition are too ambitious and deadlines are short

The goals set by Brussels for a Green Transition are too ambitious and the deadline for the European Commission to adopt and implement the measures is too short. Consensus on the topic will be difficult to reach and this is evident from the immediate reaction of Poland, which asked the European Union to "pay the bill" for the closure of thermal power plants in the country. This was stated by Boyan Rashev, managing partner at denkstatt Bulgaria to Bloomberg TV Bulgaria to be done."

According to Rashev, heavy industry in Europe has either disappeared, has been relocated outside the continent, or is located in Eastern Europe. In the European Union, all cheap and basic energy efficiency measures have been taken. The combination of these two factors has led to a 20% drop in carbon emissions over the last three decades. But for the next 10 years, for Europe to be able to build on what has been achieved in 30 years - this, according to Boyan Rashev, is a beautiful but utopian dream. "Industries are reacting sharply, but this time they are telling the truth."

Boyan Rashev is adamant that at this stage the European Union wants to continue to become richer, but without having to use energy or in other words - efforts. All the European Commission's proposals are making energy very expensive, and the effect of these measures will mainly hit the end user. "The price of electricity will explode," Rashev said, and that of gas is not low either. The reason for this is the huge consumption of gas in China and Japan, and in Europe we are currently trying to replace thermal power plants with natural gas. The other alternative to thermal power plants is biomass, but it has an even larger carbon footprint than lignite, and gives less energy than them.

On the topic that France refuses to accept the imposition of electric cars, Boyan Rashev commented that they actually have no market power. "In Bulgaria, electric cars are a rarity, which shows how much they are really in demand. I have been planning to buy such a car for 10 years, but I never do, because there is simply not a good enough offer. ”

If the purchase of electric cars was not artificially stimulated by government intervention, the market would very quickly show that there is no demand for such cars.

Boyan Rashev also commented on the severe floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. We remind you that so far the victims of the natural disaster are over 190 people. According to Rashev, it is not very unusual for Germany to fail to calculate the risk and the media to not report on what is happening in any way. The Netherlands is an example of a country that has successfully coped with the prediction of the natural disaster and the proof of this is that there are no casualties there. The main problem that Boyan Rashev sees is that politicians are likely to use human tragedy to justify the actions they intend to take.