In author and economist Daniel Lacalle’s critique, the UN’s 2030 Agenda’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals are likened to a Trojan Horse, concealing a perilous agenda of interventionism and bureaucratic overreach.
He argues that socialism and centralised planning don’t work and that the purportedly noble objectives, such as poverty reduction and infrastructure advancement, have been co-opted by socialists. He likens these detrimental policies, which, he argues, are stifling industry and economic growth across Europe, to Leninism, where a tyrannical government hides behind a popular cause.