{"id":166414,"date":"2025-12-03T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166414\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:56:12","slug":"day-2-as-it-happened-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166414\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 \u2014 as it happened \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been one year since Ursula von der Leyen began her second term as European Commission president, and Europe\u2019s sustainability agenda has been turned on its head.<\/p>\n<p>A backlash against environmental regulation is in full swing, with political groups from the center to the far right intent on watering down laws that were often only recently agreed. Internationally, Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House is pressuring Brussels to loosen its own green rulebook, while China is outpacing Europe in the global clean-tech race. The result: rising uncertainty for European industry.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, POLITICO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/sustainable-future-summit-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Future Summit<\/a> takes on a new urgency. Stay with us over the next two days as our reporters bring you the key debates \u2014 from how Europe manages its transition away from fossil fuels, to whether industry can stay competitive while going green.<\/p>\n<p>From energy, industry and mobility to food systems and finance, we\u2019ll be covering the politics, the pressure points and the big ideas shaping the continent\u2019s sustainable future.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/sustainable-future-week-agenda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full agenda of panels and interviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been one year since Ursula von der Leyen began her second term as European Commission president, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-166414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}