• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    The government was anticipating failure by scrapping annual targets, said Ó Broin. “They are essentially saying they know they can’t meet them and want to avoid proper scrutiny from the opposition.”

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      Well, it’s the same here in Germany. Basically, every year someone announces “We are building 200k new homes” and when asked about what happened to the 200k promised last year the answer is something along the lines “To bad, but this is for real”!

      • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Yeah, my mind went straight to Germany as well.

        Same with climate goals, why is the EU making such a fuss a obout agreeing on them when we all know that they’re just gonna ignore them anyways?