Inefficiency of the Green Deal: high costs, minimal results

Question for written answer E-003797/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Claudiu-Richard Târziu (ECR)

The report by the European Environment Agency 'Europe's environment 2025' shows that despite the extensive investments and rules imposed by the Green Deal, many key targets for 2030 will not be met: only 2 out of 22 are considered to be 'on track', while key sectors such as agriculture and transport have not achieved significant emission reductions since 2005. At the same time, Member States, including Romania, are incurring very high costs in adapting to these policies, without seeing any tangible results, the air in big cities remains polluted, biodiversity levels continue to decline and the materials circularity rate has only increased by 1 % in 15 years.

These conclusions also corroborate the warnings issued by the European Court of Auditors in its 2024 report, which highlights a lack of efficiency and coordination in the use of funding for the green transition and the fact that many of the projects funded fail to produce quantifiable results.

Given the dichotomy between the efforts required and the results achieved, how will the Commission bridge this efficiency gap and ensure that future environmental policies bring real and quantifiable benefits for the public rather than simply generating additional costs and administrative burdens for Member States and taxpayers?

Submitted: 30.9.2025