In Magyar Nemzet, Tamás Pilhál has already wittily pointed out that EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans fears a popular uprising if something is not done about the European energy crisis by the beginning of winter.
A few days ago, the Brussels-based news portal Euronews.com took a detailed look at the interview with the Dutch socialist politician published in the British Guardian: "If our society starts to fight due to the lack of energy, we will definitely not be able to meet our climate protection goals. Then we certainly won't be able to get to where we need to be if the energy crisis severely divides society. We need to ensure that as winter approaches, people are not left out in the cold and that our industry continues to function as well as possible in the current conditions, because the only thing that will drive Putin's mill is the division of our society."
In order to avoid a civil rebellion, the executive vice-president of the European Commission recommends that we return to fossil energy sources in the short term, even to coal! Its main goal is to reassure EU citizens by the first of November at the latest: they do not have to face a heating crisis.
It is worth savoring the ominous words of the Dutch left-wing politician - who has long been known to be one of György Soros's most reliable allies in Brussels -: popular uprising, social rebellion, European energy crisis, heating crisis. All this is said by the second highest-ranking official of the European Commission, who is in principle responsible for the European "Green Deal" and for the EU's climate neutrality to be achieved by 2050. And who for months has more or less good ideas about how European citizens should save energy so that "less money goes into Putin's pocket". For example, they should heat less in winter, cool less in hot weather, use a bicycle instead of a car, take shorter and less frequent showers, air out their clothes instead of washing them, and the rest.
And now here's the good old coal that greens loathe like the devil smokes incense. Closed coal power plants can now be used again - what can be done! - to open, carbon neutrality, climate protection as a noble, advanced goal is now smafu. Of course, only in the short term, because as Timmermans explains: "I've been in politics long enough, more than thirty years, to know that people only worry about immediate crisis situations, not long-term ones. And if we don't manage to manage the current situation, we won't know the long-term either."
It's not like, how much wisdom can the bearded philosopher of the European Commission say at the same time, who was frightened because Uncle Valóság knocked on his door... Do you have Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi's old, but evergreen, brilliant song? "A member of our family, whom we loved so much, has left us, an uncle named Valóság. / Unfortunately, he is no longer with us, / He only writes letters to us. [...] I call the family members' / precious attention to the necessary caution, / because problems may arise, / now that I am away.”
The full article of Magyar Nemzet can be read here.
Author: Sándor Faggyas
Image: MTI/EPA
