"In Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called the European Union’s 2035 target to end the sale of internal combustion engine cars “self-destructive” because it would hand the death sentence to the traditional European auto industry, with almost 14 million employees, according to EU data"<p>Right-wing short-sightedness. AIUI more than half of the export market (by car count, not price) is to areas where EV growth is strong and ICE shrinking. Those are countries right-winger tend to ignore, it's just that ignoring half your customers is a bad bad policy.