
Centre-Right Caves As MEPs Pass Nature Restoration Law
Ignoring the concerns of farmers, EU member states will now have to make swathes of their territory unfarmable by 2030.
Ignoring the concerns of farmers, EU member states will now have to make swathes of their territory unfarmable by 2030.
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Saying Trump won’t protect Europe, centre-right bloc president joined the Eurocrats who want to turn the EU into a defense union with its own nuclear shield.
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“The EPP is the party of traitors” who almost always vote with the leftists, Rodrigo Ballester said, warning that conservative votes for the European center-right are “lost in translation.”
The defeat seriously undermines EPP President Manfred Weber and calls into question future alliances for the EPP after the European elections in 2024.
While nothing is certain, it looks like the Nature Restoration Law will be defeated Wednesday as Parliament’s President Roberta Metsola aired EPP fears that climate legislation was triggering a wave of anti-green populism in Europe.