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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Green No More? Europeโ€™s Climate Consensus on the Backfoot

Rising right-wing populism, public fatigue, and budget stress are reshaping the EUโ€™s green ambitions

๋” ์ด์ƒ โ€˜์ดˆ๋กโ€™์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์˜ ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ปจ์„ผ์„œ์Šค
์šฐํŒŒ ํฌํ“ฐ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜, ์‹œ๋ฏผ ํ”ผ๋กœ, ์žฌ์ • ์••๋ฐ• ์†์— ํ”๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์˜ ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ •์ฑ…

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Just five years ago, the European Green Deal was touted as the continentโ€™s most unifying mission. Today, itโ€™s being quietly dismantled. Hard-right parties across Europe are challenging the economic logic and moral narrative of decarbonisationโ€”and centrists are starting to echo them.
๋ถˆ๊ณผ 5๋…„ ์ „๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋”œ์€ ๋Œ€๋ฅ™ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฌถ๋Š” ๋น„์ „์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•ด์ฒด๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ „์—ญ์˜ ๊ทน์šฐ ์ •๋‹น๋“ค์ด ํƒˆํƒ„์†Œํ™”์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋„๋•์„ฑ์„ ์ •๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ๋น„ํŒํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ค‘๋„ ์„ธ๋ ฅ๋งˆ์ € ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Climate policies that once symbolized a common European identity are now being reframed as elite impositions on working-class voters already burdened by inflation, energy bills, and war-driven taxes.
ํ•œ๋•Œ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ •์ฑ…์€ ์ด์ œ, ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๊ณผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์š”๊ธˆ, ์ „์Ÿ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์œผ๋กœ ํž˜๊ฒจ์šด ์„œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ โ€˜์—˜๋ฆฌํŠธ์˜ ๊ฐ•์š”โ€™์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ธ์‹๋˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Green Deal (๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋”œ)
    The EUโ€™s flagship climate strategy aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050.
    โ†’ 2050๋…„ ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•œ EU์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ „๋žต.

  • ETS(ํƒ„์†Œ๋ฐฐ์ถœ๊ถŒ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ œ)
    Emissions Trading System regulating heavy industry (ETS) and, from 2027, transport and heating (ETS2).
    โ†’ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋˜ ํƒ„์†Œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ œ(ETS)๊ฐ€ 2027๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šด์†กยท๊ฑด๋ฌผ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•๋Œ€(ETS2).

  • Greenhushing (๊ทธ๋ฆฐํ—ˆ์‹ฑ)
    The strategic avoidance of publicizing corporate climate actions due to political or market backlash.
    โ†’ ์ •์น˜ยท์‹œ์žฅ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋Œ€์‘์„ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋žต.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Europeโ€™s climate politics have entered a new phase: less ambition, more accommodation. From Germany to Britain, even mainstream leaders are echoing right-wing arguments that Europeโ€™s emissions are too small to justify unilateral burden.
์œ ๋Ÿฝ์˜ ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ •์น˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ตญ๋ฉด์— ๋“ค์–ด์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”์ ์€ ์•ผ๋ง, ๋งŽ์€ ์กฐ์ •. ๋…์ผ์—์„œ ์˜๊ตญ๊นŒ์ง€, ๊ธฐ์กด ์ •์น˜ ์ง€๋„์ž๋“ค๋งˆ์ € โ€œ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋ฐฐ์ถœ๋Ÿ‰์€ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๊ทน์šฐ์  ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The irony? Most voters still care about climateโ€”but inflation and insecurity now matter more. And green policy isnโ€™t cheap: higher interest rates, energy subsidies, and decarbonisation costs have made it a hard sell amid competing fiscal priorities like defence and welfare.
์•„์ด๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆํ•œ ๊ฑด, ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ธฐํ›„๋ฅผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ๋” ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ƒ์Šนยท๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆยทํƒˆํƒ„์†Œ ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ด์Šˆ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ green fatigue(๋…น์ƒ‰ ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ)
โ€œEurope is dealing with green fatigueโ€”and politicians are adjusting their tone.โ€
"์œ ๋Ÿฝ์€ '๋…น์ƒ‰ ํ”ผ๋กœ๊ฐ'์— ์‹œ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ •์น˜์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋งํˆฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ climate pragmatism(๊ธฐํ›„ ์‹ค์šฉ์ฃผ์˜)
โ€œFrom subsidies to red tape, climate pragmatism is now the new consensus.โ€
"๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ทœ์ œ ์™„ํ™”๊นŒ์ง€, ์ด์ œ๋Š” '๊ธฐํ›„ ์‹ค์šฉ์ฃผ์˜'๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•ฉ์˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ policy softening(์ •์ฑ… ์™„ํ™”)
โ€œEU climate plans are seeing policy softening, not in ambition but in application.โ€
"EU์˜ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๊ณ„ํš์€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์ ์šฉ ๋ฐฉ์‹์—์„œ '์ •์ฑ… ์™„ํ™”'๊ฐ€ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ European Union
European Parliament and Commission officials are torn between preserving hard-won green rules and making them politically survivable. Some are betting on simplification and deregulation; others warn that regulatory dilution could undermine decades of credibility.
์œ ๋Ÿฝ์˜ํšŒ์™€ ์ง‘ํ–‰์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” โ€˜๊ธฐํ›„ ๊ทœ์น™์˜ ์ •๋‹น์„ฑ ์œ ์ง€โ€™์™€ โ€˜์ •์น˜์  ์ƒ์กด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ํ™•๋ณดโ€™ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทœ์ œ ์™„ํ™”๋ฅผ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋“ค๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ํ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ ค๋„ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

The EU promised to lead the climate fight.
But in politics, pressure trumps promiseโ€”and green takes a backseat to grey realities.

EU๋Š” ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์„ ๋ด‰์„ ์ž์ฒ˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ •์น˜์—์„œ ์•ฝ์†๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ฑด ํ˜„์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”์ดˆ๋ก์€ ํšŒ์ƒ‰ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์— ๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… 2020 โ€“ EU Council raises 2030 emissions target from 40% to 55%
๐Ÿ“… 2020 โ€“ EU ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ, 2030๋…„ ๊ฐ์ถ• ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ 40% โ†’ 55%๋กœ ์ƒํ–ฅ
๋‹น์‹œ์—” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ •์ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์—” ํ›„ํ‡ด์˜ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ ์ด์—ˆ์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "The Humbling of Green Europe" (The Economist, 2025)

  • "Climate Action Trackerโ€ (EU Policy Assessment, 2024)

  • "Greening the EU budget: why climate mainstreaming needs reform" (Brueguel, 2025)

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