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)指責歐洲「令人窒息的官僚制度」和環保法規驅使企業到歐盟以外地區投資。他承認,如果他事先知道監管障礙,他不會同意在比利時進行具有里程碑意義的40億歐元投資。