Donald Trump made this clear in his controversial 33-page document, the National Security Strategy of the United States of America. The text is a summary of the ideology of the MAGA movement (Make America Great Again) and lodges a direct complaint against Europe. Additionally, this document, which outlines the White House’s current foreign policy priorities, contains a not-so-subtle section titled “energy dominance.”
The stated goal is to “restore American energy dominance” in “oil, gas, coal and nuclear power,” sectors that generously financed Trump’s return to the presidency. The text proposes to “increase” “net energy exports” which “will deepen relations with allies while limiting the influence of adversaries, protecting our ability to defend our coasts and, when and where necessary, allowing us to project our power”. And for this, there is no doubt: “We reject the disastrous ideologies of climate change and Net Zero, which have so damaged Europe, which threaten the United States and subsidize our adversaries. » That is to say a frontal rejection of renewable energies and electric mobility.
These are the two most important pillars that supported the EU Green Deal, born from the alliance of social democrats, conservatives, liberals and greens. This agreement was signed in 2019 and allowed European citizens to save 59 billion euros in gas and coal imports in the electricity sector alone in five years thanks to the implementation of renewable energies.
The same thing happens with combustion engines, because to operate they burn fuels that Europe does not have. Reversing or softening the roadmap for the end of sales of these engines from 2035 will weaken Europe because it makes it more dependent on oil compared to the largest producers of this fuel, which are the United States, Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The weakening of climate policies applied by European institutions has an impact on global warming, mainly caused by these fuels. But what’s more, the Brussels plan presented this Tuesday amounts to sending the wrong message to the European automobile industry. Between January and October 2025, electric vehicles represented more than a quarter of global new car sales, compared to less than 3% in 2019, recalls the energy think tank Ember in an analysis published on Tuesday. At this rate: who will want to buy a new non-electric car in 2035?
The big change from the Green Deal occurred in the position of the European People’s Party, influenced by far-right groups, which included among their clearest objectives the demolition of environmental policies in their cultural war. But in reality it is something more prosaic, it is an economic war in which the fossil fuel sector feeds one of the parties. And he places his generals at the top, for example in the White House.
Until a year ago, Chris Wright was the CEO of Liberty Energy, one of the giants of the sector. hydraulic fracturingthe gas extraction technique that allowed the United States to become the world’s leading exporter of this fuel. He has been Trump’s Secretary of State for Energy for a year, the equivalent of the Minister of Energy. A few weeks ago, at a conference in Athens, he sent a not-so-subtle message to Europe: the transition to renewable energy “hasn’t worked” and what the EU needs to do is import more fuel from the United States.
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