THE GREEN DEAL ROBBERY - €1 Trillion Climate Con Where You Pay, Corporations Profit, and Workers Lose Their Jobs

They call it the European Green Deal. They sell it as saving the planet. It's neither. It's a €1 trillion wealth transfer from taxpayers to corporations, disguised as climate action. Small businesses crushed by regulations that giants can afford. 853,000 manufacturing jobs destroyed, mostly in Poland, Romania, Germany, while Brussels preaches green transformation. Your energy costs doubled. Their subsidies quadrupled. China builds coal plants. Europe deindustrializes. And von der Leyen calls it progress. This isn't about the planet. It's about profit. And you're paying for it.

€1 trillion. That's what Brussels is "mobilizing" for the European Green Deal through 2030.

They say it's to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. To transform the economy. To create green jobs. To save the planet.

Here's what they don't say: 853,000 manufacturing jobs lost between 2019 and 2023. Poland: -278,000 jobs. Romania: -144,000. Germany: -129,000. Croatia and Slovenia: 14% of their entire manufacturing workforce, gone.

Meanwhile, the Green Deal funnels billions to the same corporations that already dominate. Small businesses face €40 million fines for "climate crimes" they can't avoid. Farmers protest because regulations are killing them. Workers march because their factories are closing.

And China? Building coal plants while Europe shuts down industry.

This isn't environmentalism. It's the biggest corporate welfare scheme in European history, wrapped in green rhetoric and sold as moral necessity.

The €1 Trillion Con: Who Actually Gets the Money

Let's start with the most basic question Brussels hopes you won't ask: Where does €1 trillion actually go?

The European Commission promises "at least €1 trillion in sustainable investments" through 2030. Sounds impressive. Until you look at the structure.

€528 billion comes directly from the EU budget and Emissions Trading System. €250 billion from the European Investment Bank. The rest? "Leveraged" from private investment, meaning taxpayer money used to de-risk corporate investments so they can profit without risk.

The Commission admits an additional €260 billion per year is needed by 2030, bringing the real total to €4 trillion. Three-quarters of which must be "privately financed."

Translation: Public money de-risks private profit.

Here's how it works:

Step 1: Brussels identifies "green" sectors: renewable energy, electric vehicles, batteries, hydrogen, heat pumps, building retrofits.

Step 2: Corporations propose projects. The EU provides grants, low-interest loans, guarantees, and tax breaks to "accelerate" investment.

Step 3: Regulations make competing technologies illegal, expensive, or impossible. Carbon taxes. Emissions standards. Phase-out dates. Small competitors can't comply. Giants thrive.

Step 4: Taxpayers fund the infrastructure, ports, roads, grid upgrades, that corporations need but won't pay for.

Step 5: Corporations profit. Workers lose jobs. Consumers pay higher prices. Brussels calls it transformation.

Step 6: When it fails, Brussels demands more money because "we didn't invest enough."

And throughout: Zero accountability. No cost-benefit analysis. No measurement of whether €1 trillion actually reduces emissions more than alternatives. Just spend, regulate, repeat.

Official Green Deal budget and objectives"European Commission's Green Deal framework"

The Manufacturing Massacre: 853,000 Jobs Destroyed

Here are the numbers Brussels buries:

Between 2019 and 2023: The EU lost 853,000 manufacturing jobs. That's nearly a million workers whose livelihoods were sacrificed to the Green Deal.

The worst hit:

• Poland: -278,000 jobs (largest absolute loss)
• Romania: -144,000 jobs
• Germany: -129,000 jobs
• Czech Republic: -11% of entire manufacturing workforce
• Bulgaria: -13% of manufacturing jobs
• Croatia and Slovenia: -14% of manufacturing workforce each

Notice the pattern? Eastern Europe devastated. Again. Just like we documented with wage exploitation and EU structural funds corruption.

Brussels takes Eastern European workers, pays them half Western wages, then destroys their jobs with regulations their countries can't afford to implement.

Germany's wind energy sector: Employment plummeted from 140,800 in 2017 to 86,600 by 2022. Denmark: 34,200 to 22,400. Spain's heat pump jobs: 68,000 to 32,000. Portugal: 80,000 to 25,000.

These aren't "transitions." They're collapses.

November 2024: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe announces plans to cut workforce from 27,000 to 16,000 over six years. That's 11,000 German steelworkers losing jobs to Green Deal regulations.

May 2024: Polish steelworkers march to the Prime Minister's office protesting the Green Deal, rising energy prices, and impossible regulations.

February 2024: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk declares Poland would go "its own way without European coercion" on the Green Deal.

But Brussels doesn't care. Because the jobs being destroyed belong to workers. The subsidies being distributed belong to corporations.

The Corporate Welfare Machine

Let's talk about who actually benefits from €1 trillion in "green investment."

The Green Deal Industrial Plan (announced February 2023) is explicitly designed to subsidize large corporations. The goals:

• "Reshoring" manufacturing from China and the US
• "Scaling up" EU production capacity
• Ensuring "sufficient access" to rare earth materials
• Making it "easier for Member States to grant necessary aid"

Translation: Government money for corporate expansion.

The plan relaxed state aid rules specifically to let governments funnel billions to corporations. The "Temporary State Aid Crisis and Transition Framework", yes, that's the actual name, allows member states to grant subsidies that would normally violate competition rules.

Result? Massive corporate handouts disguised as climate policy.

€100 billion Just Transition Fund? Supposed to help coal regions transition. Actually? Money for corporations to build facilities in places desperate for any investment, extracting maximum subsidies while creating minimal jobs.

NextGenerationEU COVID recovery funds? 37% must go to "climate objectives." Who decides what counts? The Commission. Who benefits? Corporations pitching "green" projects that would've happened anyway, now subsidized by taxpayers.

Green Bond issuance? The EU plans to raise 30% of NextGenerationEU funds through green bonds. Who buys them? Financial institutions. Who pays the interest? Taxpayers. Who invests the proceeds? Corporations receiving subsidies.

It's a closed loop of public money flowing to private profit.

Meanwhile, small businesses face impossible burdens:

• Environmental compliance costs they can't afford
• Carbon border adjustments that benefit large producers
• Emissions reporting requirements needing dedicated staff
• Fines up to €40 million or 5% of global turnover for violations
• Individuals face up to 10 years prison for "environmental crimes"

Large corporations have compliance departments, legal teams, lobbying budgets. They helped write the regulations. Small competitors? They close.

Market concentration increases. Competition dies. And Brussels calls it green transformation.

The Energy Cost Crisis: You Pay, They Profit

Here's what the Green Deal did to your energy bill:

European electricity prices doubled or tripled in many countries since Green Deal implementation. Germany now has the highest electricity prices in Europe, over €0.30/kWh for households.

Why? Because the Green Deal:

1. Phased out reliable baseload power (nuclear, coal) before replacements were ready

Germany shut down its last nuclear plants in April 2023. Result? Returned to coal for backup power. Emissions didn't drop, they shifted. And Germans pay record prices for the privilege.

2. Mandated expensive renewable infrastructure

Wind and solar require massive grid investment, backup capacity, and storage. Costs passed to consumers through higher bills and taxes.

3. Implemented carbon pricing that hits consumers

Carbon taxes on heating, transportation, goods. The poor pay proportionally more. Corporations get free allowances and pass costs to customers anyway.

4. Created regulatory uncertainty that deters investment

Changing rules, unclear targets, political interference. Private investment collapses. Public subsidies fill the gap. Taxpayers foot the bill.

The gilets jaunes protests in France started over fuel taxes justified by climate policy. Farmers across Europe are protesting Green Deal regulations making agriculture unprofitable. Workers are marching because factories are closing.

But Brussels doesn't adjust policy. It doubles down. Because the pain is distributed. The profit is concentrated.

Your heating bill doubled? That's your sacrifice for the planet.

Corporate subsidies quadrupled? That's "necessary investment in green transition."

The Eastern Europe Crushing: Labor Colony Becomes Regulatory Sacrifice

Let's be specific about what the Green Deal did to Eastern Europe.

Poland: 74% of metallurgical energy comes from coal. The Green Deal demands rapid transition Poland can't afford. Result? 278,000 manufacturing jobs lost. Mines closing. Industrial regions devastated. Alternative employment? Doesn't exist.

In Katowice, capital of Silesian voivodeship: Pockets of poverty arising where mining was the main income source. The Green Deal calls this "just transition." Workers call it abandonment.

Romania and Bulgaria: Already earning half Western European wages, now facing regulations that destroy what little industry they have. Garment factories. Food processing. Manufacturing. All facing impossible compliance costs or closure.

Czech Republic: Lost 11% of manufacturing workforce. Hungary, Slovakia, Baltic states: Similar devastation. All told to sacrifice for climate goals while Western Europe subsidizes its own industries.

Remember what we documented: Brussels uses Eastern Europe as cheap labor source and regulatory testing ground. The Green Deal continues the pattern—Eastern workers pay the price for Western corporate profits.

The "Just Transition Mechanism" was supposed to help. €100 billion over seven years. Sounds generous until you realize:

• It's loans, not grants
• Goes to governments and corporations, not workers
• Requires matching funds poor regions don't have
• Distributed based on Brussels' priorities, not regional needs

Meanwhile, Western European countries grant massive state aid to their own industries. Germany's climate fund: €212 billion. France, Netherlands, others: tens of billions each.

Eastern Europe gets lectures about transition. Western Europe gets subsidies for their corporations.

Same pattern. Always the same fucking pattern.

Official Green Deal budget and objectives - "European Commission's Green Deal framework"

The China Problem: Europe Deindustrializes While China Dominates

Here's the most damning part: The Green Deal is making Europe dependent on China while claiming to achieve "strategic autonomy."

Solar panels: 95%+ of global production capacity in China. The Green Deal mandates massive solar deployment. Result? Billions of European subsidies flow to Chinese manufacturers.

Batteries: China controls 70%+ of global battery production. Electric vehicle mandates mean Europe buys Chinese batteries or builds factories using Chinese technology and materials.

Rare earth materials: China controls processing of lithium, cobalt, rare earths essential for green tech. Europe has no alternatives. The Green Deal increases dependence.

Wind turbines: Increasingly Chinese-dominated. European manufacturers losing market share despite massive subsidies.

Heat pumps: China ramping up production. European manufacturers struggle.

So Europe:

• Shuts down its coal, gas, nuclear baseload
• Destroys its manufacturing base with regulations
• Subsidizes "green" industries that can't compete with China
• Becomes dependent on Chinese imports for energy transition
• Calls this "strategic autonomy"

Meanwhile, China builds new coal plants. Two per week. China's emissions dwarf Europe's. But Brussels focuses on European industry, European workers, European competitiveness, destroying all three in pursuit of climate goals China ignores.

The Green Deal makes Europe poorer, less competitive, more dependent, and doesn't reduce global emissions. It's geopolitical suicide disguised as environmentalism.

The Regulatory Avalanche: Death by a Thousand Directives

Let's catalog some of the Green Deal's greatest hits:

Fit for 55 Package: 13 legislative proposals to reduce emissions 55% by 2030. Each one adds costs, complexity, and compliance burdens that favor large corporations over small.

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): Tariffs on imports from countries with less strict climate rules. Sounds fair. Actually? Reduces EU export competitiveness because other countries don't have equivalent mechanisms. Contributes to deindustrialization.

Nature Restoration Law: Requires restoring 20% of EU land and sea by 2030. Sounds nice. Actually? Restricts land use, agricultural production, industrial development. Farmers are furious. Brussels doesn't care.

Emissions Trading System (ETS) expansion: Extended to buildings and transport. Translation: Carbon tax on your heating and driving. Revenue supposedly reinvested. Actually? Goes to general budget and corporate subsidies.

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive: Forces 50,000+ companies to report emissions, supply chains, environmental impact. Large corporations hire consultants. Small businesses drown in paperwork or close.

Ban on internal combustion engine cars by 2035: Mandates electric vehicles regardless of infrastructure readiness, affordability, or consumer preference. Destroys automotive supply chain. Forces dependence on Chinese batteries.

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Requires retrofitting millions of buildings to meet efficiency standards. Homeowners face tens of thousands in costs. Renters face higher rents. Brussels calls it "necessary investment."

Every directive, every regulation, every standard increases costs that consumers and small businesses bear while large corporations navigate with subsidies and lobbying.

And when people protest, farmers, workers, consumers, Brussels calls them "climate deniers" and pushes harder.

The Political Backlash: When Reality Hits Ideology

The Green Deal is creating political disasters across Europe:

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD): Germany's climate-skeptic party surged to second place in former East Germany, drawing support from regions facing coal industry collapse. Lusatia, staring at thousands of job losses, prefers AfD's skepticism to government promises.

Polish government: Filed complaints with the Court of Justice against Fit for 55 provisions, claiming they threaten Poland's economy and energy security. Prime Minister Tusk, despite being pro-EU, had to promise Poland would go its own way.

Farmer protests: Netherlands, Germany, France, Poland, Romania, farmers blocking roads, dumping produce, protesting regulations killing agriculture. Brussels responds with minor adjustments and continues the same policies.

Gilets jaunes: France's yellow vest movement started over fuel taxes justified by climate policy. Exposed the class dynamics Brussels ignores: Elites preach sacrifice from positions of comfort. Workers pay the price.

60+ NGOs warning about bioeconomy: Even environmental organizations are saying the Green Deal's pressure on ecosystems contradicts its own conservation targets.

The European Trade Union Confederation warns that Green Deal implementation is destroying jobs without creating replacements. Workers support green transition IF it includes protections, retraining, and actual jobs. Brussels offers platitudes.

And when backlash grows? Brussels blames "climate deniers" and "populists." Never acknowledges the policy is designed to benefit corporations at workers' expense.

What "Climate Neutral by 2050" Really Means

Let's be clear about what Brussels is actually trying to achieve.

Climate neutral by 2050 doesn't mean emissions drop to zero. It means net-zero emissions "balanced" by removals (forests, carbon capture, offsets).

Which allows accounting tricks:

• Offshore your emissions: Manufacturing moves to Asia. Europe imports goods. Emissions "reduced" in Europe, increased globally. Brussels claims success.
• Carbon offsets: Pay for forests in developing countries. Emissions continue in Europe. Accounting shows "neutral." Reality shows scam.
• Carbon capture: Theoretical technology that doesn't work at scale. Subsidize it anyway. Claim future reductions. Never deliver.
• Redefine sectors: Don't count aviation, shipping, agriculture properly. Adjust baselines. Celebrate progress that doesn't exist.

Meanwhile, actual global emissions keep rising. China, India, developing world increase output. Europe's share of global emissions shrinks not because policy works but because Europe's share of global economy shrinks.

The Green Deal makes Europe poorer and less relevant while doing nothing for climate.

But it does achieve its real goal: transferring wealth from citizens to corporations through green-washed subsidies.

The True Cost: What You're Actually Paying For

Let's add it up.

Direct costs:

• Higher energy bills (doubled in many places)
• Carbon taxes on heating, transport, goods
• Increased food prices (agricultural regulations)
• Building retrofit requirements (tens of thousands per home)
• Electric vehicle mandates (higher car prices)

Indirect costs:

• Job losses (853,000 manufacturing jobs, millions more at risk)
• Business closures (small businesses can't comply)
• Reduced competitiveness (European products more expensive)
• Supply chain disruptions (reshoring without capacity)
• Economic stagnation (deindustrialization)

Opportunity costs:

• €1 trillion not spent on healthcare, education, infrastructure
• Innovation stifled by prescriptive regulations
• Private investment deterred by uncertainty
• Brain drain as talent leaves for better opportunities

All of this to achieve:

• Marginal global emissions reductions (Europe is 8% of global total)
• Increased dependence on China
• Destroyed European industry
• Political instability and backlash
• Corporate profits disguised as climate action

The Commission admits €260 billion per year additional investment needed through 2030. That's 2% of EU GDP annually, comparable to total R&D spending.

For reference: The entire NextGenerationEU COVID recovery was €750 billion and nearly bankrupted several member states. The Green Deal is bigger, longer, more expensive.

And unlike COVID recovery, this is permanent. The costs never end. The regulations never expire. The corporate subsidies never stop.

You're not paying for the planet. You're paying for the largest wealth transfer in European history.

Who Benefits? Follow the Money

Big Energy: Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, pivoting to "renewables" means massive subsidies for infrastructure they control. Offshore wind? They own it. Hydrogen? They'll produce it. Solar farms? They're investing. All subsidized by you.

Tech Giants: Electric vehicle manufacturers, battery producers, grid technology, subsidized development, guaranteed markets through mandates, protected from competition through regulations.

Financial Sector: Green bonds, carbon trading, ESG investing, entire new asset classes created through regulation. Management fees, trading commissions, advisory services. Billions extracted from "green" finance.

Consulting Firms: Compliance, reporting, sustainability strategy—every regulation creates demand for expensive advisors. Small businesses pay. Large firms have in-house teams.

Chinese Manufacturers: European Green Deal = Chinese export market. Solar, batteries, rare earths, manufacturing equipment. Europe deindustrializes, China supplies the "green" replacement.

Brussels Bureaucrats: Bigger budgets. More power. New agencies. Expanded mandates. The same unelected technocrats now control industrial policy, energy policy, climate policy, all justified by Green Deal.

Lobbyists: 25,000 already in Brussels spending €343 million annually. Green Deal creates more opportunities. More regulations to influence. More subsidies to capture.

Who loses?

Workers: Jobs destroyed, wages stagnant, costs rising.

Small businesses: Can't afford compliance, can't compete with subsidized giants, close.

Consumers: Higher prices for energy, transport, food, housing.

Taxpayers: €1 trillion and climbing, no accountability, no results.

Eastern Europe: Crushed again, same pattern as always , they pay the price, West captures the profit.

The Climate Lie

Here's what nobody says: The Green Deal is a terrible way to reduce emissions.

If you genuinely wanted to cut emissions effectively and affordably, you'd:

1. Keep existing nuclear running - Zero emissions, reliable baseload. Germany shutting down nuclear to replace with coal and gas is insane from climate perspective.

2. Invest in next-generation nuclear - Small modular reactors, fusion research. Europe abandons nuclear leadership to China and Russia.

3. Deploy carbon capture where it works - Industrial processes that can't be electrified. Instead, subsid

ize it everywhere for PR.

4. Focus on efficiency - Massive emissions reductions from industrial efficiency, building retrofits, grid optimization. Far cheaper than building new renewable capacity.

5. Impose carbon tax, eliminate subsidies, let markets work - Price carbon, remove all energy subsidies, let consumers and businesses choose cheapest low-carbon options. The fact that Brussels doesn't do this proves the Green Deal isn't about emissions.

Instead, the Green Deal:

• Chooses technologies politically (wind, solar)
• Subsidizes corporate favorites
• Mandates specific solutions
• Ignores cost-effectiveness
• Punishes consumers and workers
• Enriches corporations and bureaucrats

This isn't climate policy. It's industrial policy disguised as climate action.

And it's failing. Manufacturing PMI below 50 for 29 consecutive months as of mid-2024. That's two and a half years of industrial contraction, the longest since records began.

Europe is becoming poorer and less competitive while claiming moral superiority.

What Happens Next

The Green Deal isn't slowing down. It's accelerating.

More regulations coming:

• Tighter emissions standards
• Expanded carbon pricing
• Stricter building requirements
• Agricultural restrictions
• Industrial phase-outs

More money demanded:

• Commission admits €4 trillion actually needed
• Calls for "green" EU borrowing
• Pressure for carbon border revenues
• "Just Transition" fund expansion

More job losses projected:

• Automotive sector facing massive restructuring
• Steel and aluminum under pressure
• Chemical industry relocating
• Agriculture shrinking

More political backlash inevitable:

• Right-wing parties gaining on climate skepticism
• Farmer and worker protests intensifying
• Member state resistance growing
• Popular support for Green Deal collapsing

And Brussels' response? Double down. More spending, more regulations, more mandates. Because as we documented, crisis is the tool for control. And climate is the perfect crisis—permanent, unfalsifiable, justifies anything.

The Truth They Won't Admit

The European Green Deal is corporate welfare disguised as climate policy.

€1 trillion flows from taxpayers to corporations.

853,000 manufacturing jobs destroyed, mostly in Eastern Europe, again.

Energy costs doubled for consumers while corporations get subsidies.

Small businesses crushed by regulations giants can afford.

European competitiveness destroyed while China dominates green tech supply chains.

And global emissions? Barely affected. Europe is 8% of global total and shrinking. The Green Deal makes Europe poorer and less relevant without helping climate.

But it does achieve its real goal: Transferring wealth upward while claiming moral superiority.

Von der Leyen calls it "the most ambitious climate policy in the world."

Workers losing jobs call it betrayal.

Small businesses closing call it impossible.

Taxpayers funding it call it expensive.

Eastern Europeans crushed by it call it the same exploitation, new name.

It's not about the planet. It's about profit. Corporate profit. Bureaucratic power. Financial sector fees. Consulting revenue. Lobbying opportunities.

And you're paying for all of it.

A. Kade

"They're not saving the planet, they're transferring wealth upward and calling it green. €1 trillion in subsidies, 853,000 jobs lost, energy costs doubled, and Europe de industrializes while China builds coal plants. This isn't climate policy. It's the biggest corporate welfare scheme in history."

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