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Top-Down or Bottom-Up, Pesticides Are All the Buzz at the Commission
Over one million Europeans want farmers to stop using synthetic pesticides; farmers want policy coherence and consistency. Can a resolution be found?
Over one million Europeans want farmers to stop using synthetic pesticides; farmers want policy coherence and consistency. Can a resolution be found?
Recent protests in the Netherlands could just be the first firing shot in a wave of discontent after the European Parliament passed the Nature Restoration Law yesterday, despite conservative warnings that it would play into the hands of populists.
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.
A sign of a weakening consensus between the centre Right and Left, the EPP came in for heavy criticism from the S&D for working with the far Right after a controversial land reclamation bill was defeated at committee stage in the European Parliament Tuesday.
As farmers lead backlash against environmental regulations, the political Right is poised to capture their vote.
The controversial vote to reject the directive ended in a draw, shocking conservatives.
The EU Commission seems deaf to warnings from both prime ministers and Parliament that Green Deal regulations are coming too fast and going too far.
The gamble may be well calculated, as many member states are hesitant to embrace the directive as written by the Commission.
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