In democratic countries, one would expect that incompetent and corrupt politicians actively involved in scandals, deadly disasters, or other catastrophes would get voted out of office, fired, prosecuted, or at least retired into obscurity. But if they are pitching for Net Zero, the European Union promotes them.

Spain’s Socialist minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, who the Spanish Congress is investigating for neglecting to strengthen dams, drainage canals, warning systems, and responses that would have mitigated the deadly consequences of the recent floods that devastated the province of Valencia — killing hundreds of people and destroying thousands of homes — has just been appointed to the European Commission.
The president of the European Commission (the EU’s ruling body), Ursula von der Leyen, has quite a bit in common with the Spanish Climate Czar. When von der Leyen was German defense minister, she hollowed out the military with defense cuts while shuttering Germany’s coal plants and nuclear reactors. Her government made Germany dependent on Russian gas as part of the “Green Energy transition,” weakening Europe while filling Vladimir Putin’s war chest and emboldening him to invade Ukraine.
Von der Leyen is herself under investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Belgian government on corruption allegations involving the purchase of over $2 billion in COVID vaccines, most of which were never used. She is being probed for “interference in public functions, destruction of evidence, corruption and conflict of interest,” according to the Belgian prosecutor’s office in Liège. It’s alleged that her husband, Heiko, is a lobbyist for Pfizer.
Despite losing support among European conservatives who were her original base, von der Leyen narrowly clinched her reappointment to a new five-year term last month by a coalition of Socialists and Greens rallying to her cry for “massive investment in renewables.”
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