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LMP CALLS ON GOVT TO JOIN EU GREEN JOBS INITIATIVE

 

Opposition LMP has called on the government to join the European Union’s initiative aimed at promoting green jobs. LMP lawmaker Péter Ungár noted that the government scrapped the environment ministry soon after coming to power but then did a U-turn. First the co-ruling Christian Democrats “declared themselves green” after promoting plastic-free month last August, while this past February the prime minister announced that his government was turning green. Meanwhile, the cabinet last year refused to get behind the EU’s 2030 climate goals and the foreign minister declared the German car industry more important than goals to fight climate change, Ungár said. In addition, the government this year stayed away from joining the EU’s initiative for creating more jobs in the green sector, he said.
Ungár criticised the government’s handling of a bill on banning single-use plastics, saying that the cabinet submitted it to parliament before withdrawing it. It later submitted it once more after the ruling Fidesz party called on it to do so. He said LMP was prepared to cooperate with the government on necessary measures.