Petrochemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe has blamed Europe’s “suffocating bureaucracy” and environmental red tape for pushing companies to invest outside the bloc, admitting that he would not have agreed on a landmark €4bn investment in Belgium if he had known of the regulatory roadblocks in advance.The European Commission’s Green Deal, an ambitious push to decarbonise the EU, needed to also take into account the importance of supporting industry, Ratcliffe told the Financial Times, warning of the rising backlash from businesses towards Brussels’ “uncompetitive” policies.
石化大亨吉姆•拉特克利夫爵士(Sir Jim Ratcliffe)指责欧洲“令人窒息的官僚制度”和环保法规驱使企业到欧盟以外地区投资。他承认,如果他事先知道监管障碍,他不会同意在比利时进行具有里程碑意义的40亿欧元投资。