EU regulations make cars more expensive for ordinary people: In Strasbourg I supported cheap and accessible vehicles
In the European Parliament, together with Kateřina Konečná, I spoke out in defense of ordinary motorists, from whose point of view new cars have become a financially unaffordable luxury due to EU regulations. I pointed out that without bureaucratic restrictions and mandatory elements, a modern simple car could cost around 150,000 crowns on the market, and a family car around a quarter of a million, which is also confirmed by my personal experiences from trips to China, where such cheap and reliable vehicles for working people are a reality. Current EU policy, on the other hand, forces Czech citizens to overpay three times the amount or to drive in sixteen-year-old used cars, and therefore the only chance to save our car industry remains a radical reduction of regulations and a return to production according to the real wishes of customers, not Brussels tables.
The most important thing is disappearing from the debate about the EU and cars - the interest of customers. Ordinary motorists who need a cheap and good car. They don't want the nonsense that makes cars expensive, bad and full of crap. We both talked about it at the Strasbourg plenary session today, withKateřina Konečná.
If there were no EU regulation, a modern simple car could cost around 150,000 CZK (6,000 EUR), a family car around a quarter of a million crowns (10,000 EUR). It is possible in the world - but our people pay three times as much. Or they drive sixteen-year-old second-hand cars because they don't have a new one.
During my trips abroad, I sat in such "ordinary" cars and it was not bad. I'm always more interested in what ordinary working people drive and how much it costs them than the various supercars shown to delegations - they are amazing, yes, but for a few individuals, what matters is what the majority of the nation drives. What they had in China for a hundred thousand (the price of a better scooter in our country) is easily usable for daily commuting to work, for shopping or with children to school, it has four seats, a battery for 200 km and it can drive at 100 km. What they had for a quarter of a million was a normal "adult" car, which costs twice or three times as much here. And these weren't some cars that "evil China subsidizes" in order to trip up carmakers in the EU; these are the cars he sells in his own market to his people.
What about that? Does our industry still have a chance? Yes. Let's cut regulations, it doesn't work on paper. Let's let people buy the cars they want, not the ones the EU dictates. And companies should not produce according to regulations, but according to the wishes of the customer - like years ago, when our car industry was still young and innovated the most. Then it will be possible to say: Whoever cannot make a car cheaply and well, should go bankrupt and make way for better ones.
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