TAG: Nature restoration
EU conservatives are fueling far right with Green Deal crusade, Spain’s deputy PM warns
Europe’s center-right leaders assailing green policies are only feeding the rise of a Trump-style po...
8 months ago
‘Bad’ EU nature law needs to ‘go back to the drawing board,’ Belgian PM says
The EU’s flagship nature law is “bad” and needs to be revised after the June European election, Belgium’s prime minister said. The bloc's Nature Restoration Law, which aims to rehabilitate 20 percent of the EU’s degraded land by 2030, is in limbo after a...
6 months ago
The EU compromise machine is breaking — and everyone’s blaming Germany
EU policymaking is going off the rails as the election nears.The main culprit? Germany’s partisan feuds.From the outside, Brussels’ lawmaking can seem overly procedural and institutionalized. But in recent weeks, drama has riven the EU institutions, with...
6 months ago
How the EU’s flagship nature law became an electoral punching bag
BRUSSELS — Election fever is slowly killing an embattled law seeking to rehabilitate the European Union’s ailing rivers, forests and seas. The Nature Restoration Law, once billed as a pillar of the European Green Deal, is a shadow of its former self after...
6 months ago
Europe must quicken green efforts after election, EU climate chief says
STRASBOURG — The next crop of European Union officials must accelerate the push to slash planet-warming pollution and prepare for an extreme weather surge. That’s EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra's message after scientists’ latest warning that the Continen...
6 months ago
‘Insane’ and ‘dangerous’ to give up on EU nature law, says Belgian minister
Ignore the prime minister, Belgium is committed to getting the EU's new nature rules approved. That's according to Brussels Environment and Climate Minister Alain Maron, who is responsible for steering talks among EU ministers on the highly controversial...
5 months ago
Von der Leyen finally stands up for nature law — just as it may fall
BRUSSELS/BRATISLAVA — It took her a year, but European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is finally defending her own law to protect nature — just as the coalition behind it is fracturing. In a letter sent to European Parliament members and obtain...
5 months ago
Pragmatism over principle: Europe’s Greens adapt to survive
BRUSSELS — Europe’s chastened Greens are preparing to trade idealism for influence. After taking a beating in last month’s European Parliament election and losing a quarter of their seats, the environmentalists are scrambling to remain relevant as surging...
2 months ago
Key leader in Ireland’s government quitting as Green Party chief
DUBLIN – A key leader of Ireland’s three-party government says he’s quitting as Green Party leader, escalating speculation that the Irish soon could face a snap election.Eamon Ryan announced after Tuesday's Cabinet meeting that he will resign as Green chi...
2 months ago
The EU says it wants food security. It really wants exports.
BRUSSELS — Food security: It’s the new slogan dominating European farming. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has pinned it at the top of her agricultural agenda, promising European lawmakers that she would ensure it in her second term. Th...
2 months ago
The plan to save European farming
BRUSSELS — Business as usual is no longer an option for European farmers and businesses if climate collapse and economic hardship are to be avoided.That’s the top line of a joint report presented to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on We...
1 month ago
Europe’s soil emergency
BRUSSELS — Extreme weather has made 2024 a ruinous year for European farmers. Charged by climate change, a savage cycle of droughts and floods, winter heat waves and late frosts has devastated agricultural areas. In recent months, cows died of thirst in S...
2 weeks ago
Weber crows as von der Leyen walks back EU deforestation drive
The EU’s nature wars are back.On Wednesday, the European Commission delayed for a year the introduction of landmark rules banning agricultural products from logged forests. The president of the center-right European Peoples’ Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, im...
1 week ago