Sustainability challenges, especially those relating to climate change, are of a global nature and require cooperation from all countries. Unwillingness to cooperate in climate action is totally unjustified and illogical, given that climate change affects the entire planet.
This type of distinction, making full use of the Treaty’s new Article 136, has to be applied in different domains, drawing the appropriate lessons of the crisis for the functioning of the monetary union. We hope that the ongoing negotiations over the legislative package will permit the texts to be significantly improved along these lines.