The European Commission’s first Executive Vice-President in charge of the Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, stressed the importance of adopting the ‘Fit for 55 package’ as soon as possible in order to reduce both the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions and its dependence on Russian fossil fuels, on Thursday 28 April, in a discussion with members of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).
“My first message today is that we need the Fit...