“Climate hypocrites” – President of the Council of the EU criticized for luxury flights

The French newspaper “Le Monde” meticulously listed the luxury trips of the EU boss, who railed against climate change. What an outrage! The top man in the ‘state of Europe’ gives a nut about the ‘Green Deal’, with which the Union wants to become climate neutral by 2050. “Private households have to pay for and swallow the car burning ban – while Michel doesn’t give a damn,” was the criticism. This taste proves it. Because for his “jetting” he always uses machines from the company Luxaviation. This was also the case when he met Chancellor Karl Nehammer on January 26 – the cost of a return flight was €20,553!

Luxury flight to the UN climate summit
That can still pass as a state reason – dinner weeks later at a posh Parisian restaurant slightly less so. Topic during dinner: “Terror in the Sahel”. Already at the UN climate summit in Egypt last November, he chose the private luxury variant for the outward flight instead of the economy class of a scheduled flight, just like Interior Minister Leonore Gewessler.

The President of the Council also preferred to go to the “One Ocean Summit” to save the seas in France instead of taking the train. In general, the “climate hypocrite” hates the railways. He used it three times in 2022. He even allows himself to be driven for trips to Paris (an hour and 20 minutes by train). And his hunger for private jets doesn’t seem to have been satisfied: the 2024 travel budget for the EU Council presidency is expected to increase by 27.5 percent to 2.6 million, including delegations.

Comparison: SPÖ politician Günther Sidl has not taken a single flight between offices in Brussels, Strasbourg and Austria since taking office as a member of the European Parliament in 2019, traveling only by train. It has already covered more than 145,000 kilometers.