Small demonstration for the honorary doctorate of European Commissioner Frans Timmermans | abroad

The university has chosen accelerating the energy transition as a theme to celebrate the 180th birthday, or Christmas, which will be held on Friday. On this occasion, he was awarded several honorary doctorates, including those of Timmermans. He will be rewarded “for his tireless efforts to put the fight against climate change on the European agenda”.

There has been a petition circulating for some time from people who do not agree with the honorary doctorate. “Frans Timmermans proves time and time again that he makes the energy transition more difficult than promoting it. As an opponent of nuclear energy, he claims that nuclear energy is expensive and that it takes 20 years to build a nuclear power plant. He is a supporter of biomass plants, and he promotes large-scale logging ” , is present in it. The letter has been signed thousands of times, but also often anonymously. There were also engineers graduating from TU Delft who wanted to hand in their diplomas in protest.

The Timmermans are very honored and really happy to honor TU. He remembers his grandfather a miner. His grandson would love to see the man experience a Friday event and noted that education can take people away.