“If we don\u2019t change the course, we will probably crush the industry,” \u010cerven\u00fd said during his first visit to the United Nations, where he addressed the U.N. High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n
\u010cerven\u00fd pointed to the pressure facing European manufacturers, particularly the automotive sector, and warned that companies were increasingly moving production abroad.<\/p>\n
The debate comes as Europe faces mounting pressure to revive its economy while maintaining ambitious climate targets. The discussion is increasingly relevant for the United States, Europe’s largest trading partner, as Washington and Brussels navigate disagreements over energy policy, industrial competitiveness and the pace of the global transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
TRUMP\u2019S REINDUSTRIALIZATION AGENDA FACES ITS BIGGEST HURDLE \u2014 AMERICANS<\/a><\/p>\n Ambassador Dan Negrea moderates a panel at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations\u2019 “Trade Over Aid” forum in New York, joined by Czech Environment Minister Igor Cerveny and other participants. (Donald Conahan\/ U.S. mission to the U.N.)<\/p>\n “If you look at the market at this moment, mostly in European countries, there is a very bad situation,” he said. “We see many companies leave our territory and leave for China or another place in the world.”<\/p>\n Without those companies, he said, European governments would lose both tax revenue and jobs.<\/p>\n \u010cerven\u00fd argued that European governments must find a “win-win” approach that protects the environment without undermining industry and employment.<\/p>\n TRUMP’S EPA CHIEF PUSHES BACK ON CLIMATE SKEPTICS BEING LABELED ‘SCIENCE DENIERS’<\/a><\/p>\n Protesters hold signs, as Fridays for Future demonstrate for a social and climate-friendly Europe, in Berlin, Germany, May 31, 2024.\u00a0 (Christian Mang\/Reuters)<\/p>\n “We have to be very careful about this and be very reasonable and try to find some solution for both sides,” he said. “If you look from a higher perspective at European countries, most of them provided only the green ideology. And I think this is a bad way.”<\/p>\n \u010cerven\u00fd said resistance to the current approach was spreading beyond the Czech Republic, citing Poland, Slovakia, Hungary<\/a>, Germany and some Scandinavian countries.<\/p>\n The Czech Republic has been among several European governments pressing Brussels to ease parts of the Green Deal, including by delaying the bloc\u2019s new carbon market for buildings and road transport and seeking changes to emissions-trading rules that Prague argues are raising energy costs and weakening industrial competitiveness.<\/p>\n TRUMP CELEBRATES AFTER UN CLIMATE COMMITTEE MOVES AWAY FROM ITS MOST EXTREME GLOBAL WARMING SCENARIO<\/a><\/p>\n Trade union ‘Solidarnosc’ and Polish farmers protest against the European Green Deal in Warsaw, Poland, May 10, 2024.\u00a0 (Kuba Stezycki\/Reuters)<\/p>\n \u010cerven\u00fd\u2019s warning stood in contrast to the position presented by European Commissioner for Environment Jessika Roswall during the ministerial segment of the U.N. High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York on July 13. The annual forum, convened under the U.N. Economic and Social Council, brings governments together to review progress toward the organization\u2019s global development goals.<\/p>\n Roswall, speaking on behalf of the European Union<\/a> and its member states, said the bloc remained committed to the 2030 Agenda, a U.N. framework adopted in 2015 that sets 17 goals covering issues including poverty, health, clean energy, infrastructure and environmental protection to be pursued by 2030. She warned that progress was being undermined by conflict, inequality and the “triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution<\/a> and biodiversity loss.”<\/p>\n She called for accelerated climate action, greater investment in renewable energy and low-carbon<\/a> technologies, and support for a broader green transition<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The challenge is not the lack of ideas, but the lack of speed,” she said. “So let\u2019s speed up together.”<\/p>\n European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy Jessika Roswall. (Florence Lo\/Pool\/Reuters)<\/p>\n In his exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, \u010cerven\u00fd also praised President Donald Trump for strengthening European politicians who favor a less regulatory approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m glad that Mr. Donald Trump is president again, because this changed many things also in European countries,” he said, adding that the United States gives smaller countries such as the Czech Republic a stronger partner in debates in Brussels.<\/p>\n \u010cerven\u00fd said Europe does not need to abandon sustainability, but should pursue it gradually and in cooperation with industry.<\/p>\n![\"Ambassador](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trade-over-Aid-Event.jpg\")
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