Ahead of the 23-24 April informal European Council, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, on behalf of more than 200 member organisations, representing over 40 million citizens across Europe, would like to share our recommendations with the EU leaders.
The CAN Europe network is deeply concerned by the US-Israel war on Iran and the conflict across the region with its devastating human toll. CAN Europe denounces breaches of international law and urges EU Member States to pursue constructive and united diplomacy to build a just and lasting peace grounded in international human rights law.
This crisis is another stark reminder that Europe cannot shield households and businesses against price shocks and achieve energy security, whilst remaining dependent on fossil fuel imports, regardless of their origin. The EU response must therefore ensure short-term measures for emergency relief do not undermine, but instead, accelerate the structural transformation needed to deliver a resilient, climate-neutral, and socially just economic model.
At the same time, for the EU’s response to match the scale of the current crisis, it is imperative that any emergency policy package is supported by new public investment capacity, both in the immediate term and via a radical rethinking of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-2034, which was designed on pre-war premises that no longer hold.
CAN Europe letter to EU leaders ahead of the 23-24 April informal European Council
