“These campaigns (for example,“ Friday for the Future ”- (the movement of the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. - RT ), Greenpeace actions, civilian rescue ships in the Mediterranean) are professionally organized and have serious financial support,” the parliamentarian said.
According to the deputy, such protest movements in the long term negatively affect the economic development of the European economy.
“Currently, such campaigns have a strong influence on politics, which impedes the achievement of goals such as ensuring welfare, employment, reliable energy supplies, and, ultimately, contributes to Europe’s loss of global competitiveness and its impoverishment,” Moiten said.
In this regard, he calls for an analysis of environmental protests for hybrid threats. The politician also asks if Russia can be associated with the organization of these environmental campaigns.
“Without the conclusions of such an investigation, can the commission rule out the possibility that these campaigns are financed and supervised by Russia?” Asks Moyten.
Political scientist Alexander Asafov called the link to shares with Russia the traditional "political stereotype."
“The nature of the certain controllability of these actions (the organization of environmental protest movements. - RT ) is obvious, but the respected deputy acts in line with such political stereotypes and makes mistakes ... The environmental agenda, of course, experiences certain manipulations, but talking about the influence of Russia, in my opinion, is quite funny ", - said the expert in an interview with RT.
16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Tunberg is known as the founder of the School Climate Strike (also “Friday for the Future”), an international school and student movement that requires action to combat global warming: students go to rallies on Friday to protest instead of studying. World fame came to Thunberg after her speech at the UN climate summit.
Commenting on the activist’s speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he did not share “the general enthusiasm from Greta Tunberg’s speech” and noted that “when someone uses children and adolescents for their own interests”, this is condemnable.