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Europe Doubles Down on Eco-Transformation

In response to the intensifying European energy crisis, the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation. 

Thomas Kolbe | March 31, 2026

Pressure generates counterpressure. In response to the intensifying European energy crisis, the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation. Politics lacks the imagination for a real energy crisis scenario. Civil society submits, nearly paralyzed, to its fate.

Anyone who expected that empty gas storage in Germany and the escalating energy crisis in Iran would silence the green lobby in the country must think again. The political representation and its media apparatus -- the extended arm of the green crony system -- fight with all means to preserve the green transformation complex, regardless of the force with which the waves of reality now crash against the thin green dam.

While economists and business associations worldwide foresee a new energy price shock -- with the potential to derail the global economy -- solutions to the mercantile bottleneck at Hormuz barely emerge from Berlin’s intellectual narrowness.

On the contrary: On this side of ideologically dismantled infantilism, political elites focus primarily on the survival of their power construct -- the Green Deal.

Much is at stake: hundreds of billions of euros in subsidies are already earmarked for the coming years to flood the rapidly drying channels of the chronically insolvent art economy. Politics benefits -- it is a pillar of power, a vestibule of its own ideology, and if needed, an alternative career path for strong NGO lobbyists.

The response to rising energy prices is telling: the federal government rebrands the Heating Act for media effect, yet successfully defends the incentive and cost structure of this legislative expropriation program for homeowners. It clings rigidly to the grotesque fuel taxation (one can always switch to electric cars, the Environment Minister suggests) while Brussels rhetorically softens the path to an........

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