{"id":1518,"date":"2025-10-15T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:28:14","slug":"borboly-csabas-speech-at-the-european-committee-of-the-regions-justice-begins-with-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/borboly-csabas-speech-at-the-european-committee-of-the-regions-justice-begins-with-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Borboly Csaba\u2019s speech at the European Committee of the Regions: \u201cJustice begins with energy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brussels \u2013 15.10.2025<\/strong><br \/>\nBorboly Csaba, Vice President of Harghita County Council and member of the European Committee of the Regions, took the floor as a member of the Covenant of Mayors, emphasizing that\u00a0<em>\u201cClimate justice begins with energy justice.\u201d<\/em><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The politician highlighted that many households across Europe \u2013 especially in rural and mountainous areas \u2013 live in homes they cannot afford to heat properly.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just energy poverty. It is a daily experience of exclusion \u2013 and a test of Europe\u2019s credibility,\u201d Borboly said.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>In his speech, he recalled that in his CoR report entitled\u00a0<em>\u201cTowards a socially fair implementation of the Green Deal,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he had already stressed that fairness means not only financial support but also\u00a0<strong>real local empowerment<\/strong>.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need not only subsidies, but also tools that allow our communities to shape their own energy future,\u201d he added.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Borboly outlined three concrete directions:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u><\/u><strong>creating energy cooperatives<\/strong>,<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u><\/u><strong>installing renewable energy sources<\/strong>\u00a0in schools, clinics, and public buildings,<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u><\/u><strong>empowering local authorities<\/strong>\u00a0to become not only energy consumers but also energy producers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>He also put forward a specific proposal:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if every Covenant member city set a target by 2030 to lift families out of energy poverty through at least one flagship project?\u201d<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>According to Borboly Csaba, this is not only a climate issue but also a matter of\u00a0<strong>trust, dignity, and equal opportunity for all Europeans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 15.10.2025 Borboly Csaba, Vice President of Harghita County Council and member of the European Committee of the Regions, took the floor as a member of the Covenant of Mayors, emphasizing that\u00a0\u201cClimate justice begins with energy justice.\u201d The politician highlighted that many households across Europe \u2013 especially in rural and mountainous areas \u2013 live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}