No Green Deal without technology, leading EU lawmaker says

 

For EU lawmaker Eva Maydell, Europe’s ambitious green agenda must be supported by a comprehensive industrial plan that will shift the bloc’s focus to competitive sustainability and becoming the world’s leader in clean technologies.

“We can’t talk about the green transition without talking about technologies. There is no Green Deal without the Tech Deal. AI and other new technologies are the ultimate enablers of the sustainable future we are trying to envisage here in Europe,” Maydell told EURACTIV.

Maydell is an influential voice of the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament. She has worked on key digital files such as the EU’s data strategy, the revised Networks and Information Security directive (NIS2), the Chips Act and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act (...)