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The Green Deal lives to see another day. But clouds are darkening.

By Jorge Liboreiro and Sándor Zsíros

There’s nothing like a good cliffhanger – is there?

The European Parliament served high drama on Thursday morning during a closely-watched session of the environment committee that was so packed that some attendants were left standing on the side-lines or sitting down on the floor.

The top issue on the agenda: the Nature Restoration Law, an ambitious climate proposal that aims to rehabilitate the European Union’s degraded habitats and lost species. 

In normal times, restoring nature would be considered a righteous, imperative mission to make up for the excesses of human greed and preserve the rich biodiversity of the landscapes that surround us all. But these are not normal times.

The Nature Restoration Law has become Europe’s most controversial piece of legislation as a result of a relentless opposition campaign launched by conservative parties, who claim the law will endanger the livelihoods of farmers and fishers, disrupt supply chains, push commodity prices further up and even exacerbate food insecurity in North Africa.

No other group personifies this opposition better than the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the parliament’s largest formation. Its aversion to the Nature Restoration Law has become so profound that ahead of Thursday’s vote, the group filed a motion to reject the legislation in its entirety, without discussing further amendments.

The radical move, supported by hard- and far-right parties, drastically raised the stakes for the environment committee, which has never rejected a piece of the European green Deal in such a summary manner.

Fearing the worst, NGOs doubled down on their outreach engagement to defend the legislation and debunk the EPP’s claims, which they describe as plain disinformation. The charities found a surprising ally in the private sector: in the lead-up to the crucial vote, CEOs and top executives from 50 companies, including IKEA, Nestlé, H&M and Unilever, released a joint letter urging lawmakers to pass the law, provide legal certainty for businesses and foster innovation.

“Our dependence on a healthy environment is fundamental to the resilience of our economies and, ultimately, our long-term success,” the CEOs wrote.

The stage was set for a showdown.

On Thursday morning, both sides seemed confident the vote would go their way. The committee’s chair, Pascal Canfin, moved quickly through the agenda until reaching the Nature Restoration Law. The first point: either throw the law in the bin or continue the traditional legislative cycle.

Canfin opened the vote and the packed room suddenly turned quiet. The electronic tally showed 44 votes in favour and 44 against, meaning the EPP’s vote had failed by one single vote. The result prompted applause from socialists and greens, who loudly cheered the legislation’s survival. Next to them, conservatives looked stone-faced and remained quiet.

Once the euphoria faded, the committee turned to the enormous list of amendments that each party had submitted, a process that extended for almost three hours. By noon, MEPs realised they had run out of time because the plenary session next door was about to begin and their presence was required in the hemicycle.

Canfin took the floor and announced the vote would continue on 27 June, when the committee is set to convene again. The cliffhanger was admittedly unsatisfactory for such a dramatic day and ensures the charged political fight will rage on.

“It was real crazy,” César Luena, the socialist MEP who acts as rapporteur of the Nature Restoration Law, told Euronews right after the session was over. Luena hailed the first vote as “very good news” and denounced the EPP for dragging the parliament into the party’s internal tensions.

“Nature is not guilty of this fight, of this problem, of the EPP’s electoral strategy,” Luena said.

Visibly disappointed, Christine Schneider, the German lawmaker who leads the EPP’s opposition push, pointed the finger at Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s vice-president in charge of the Green Deal, whom she appeared to accuse of coaxing undecided MEPs.

“This is a consequence of a very badly-made law,” Schneider told Euronews. “We said over nine months what we want, and this now is the result of the work from Vice President Timmermans and it continues today with the vote.”

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WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON?

THE FRONTLINE Ukraine’s anticipated counteroffensive has officially begun, unleashing fierce fighting in the eastern region. The country is confident it can make significant advances thanks to Western weapons but Russian forces continue launching strikes against supply lines. In Moscow, lawmakers adopted a bill to allow convicted criminals and former prisoners to join the war. And in Berlin, the ruling coalition finally unveiled its national security strategy, with references to Russia and China.

MAJOR DEAL The European Union “needs to work” with Tunisia to stem the flow of irregular migrant arrivals but will continue to criticise the government when necessary, Ylva Johansson told Euronews in an exclusive interview. “It’s not black and white,” the European Commissioner for home affairs said when asked about Tunisia’s poor record on human rights. Johansson also discussed the major deal that member states struck last week to revamp the EU’s rules on the reception of asylum seekers.

TECH RULES The European Parliament has endorsed a blanket ban on real-time facial recognition installed in public spaces, a practice that is often linked with mass surveillance and authoritarian regimes. During this week’s plenary session, MEPs rejected a series of exemptions that would have allowed law enforcement to resort to live biometrics in certain cases. The AI Act heads now to negotiations.

DIVEST NOW Google must break up its ad business in order to allay antitrust concerns. This is the radical conclusion issued this week by the European Commission after launching a new probe into the tech giant’s market practices. Google is both a seller of digital ads and an intermediary between advertisers, a unique position Brussels sees as unfair dominance.

FLARING TENSIONS Three police officers have been detained by Serbian forces, as tensions between Kosovo and Serbia remain at an all-time high. The Kosovo authorities, who have described the incident as “kidnapping,” reacted by tightening border controls on trucks that carry Serbian number plates, a sensitive issue the EU had hoped to be resolved by now.

THE OUTLAWS The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reached second position for the first time in opinion polls, raising the alarm among the political establishment. The group has for years been under the scrutiny of law enforcement due to its perceived extremism and anti-democratic behaviour. With AfD rising, Giulia Carbonaro asks: could the party be outlawed?

VIRAL CLAIMS Was the UK forced to restart a coal power plant because solar panels cannot cope with the heat? This is the claim going viral in the country. Euronews Green conducts the necessary fact-check.

LASTING STIGMA Believe or not, many European countries still impose severe restrictions on blood donations made by men who have sex with men. The measures date back to the 1980s, when researchers discovered HIV could be transmitted by blood. From deferral periods to total bans, Lauren Chadwick examines which European countries base their donation policies on sexual orientation.
 
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IT'S IN THE NUMBERS

Twitter is facing a lawsuit which could cost it up to $250 million (approximately €230m). A total of 17 music publishers, among them Concord Music Group and Universal Music Corp., are seeking damages over the alleged copyright infringement of approximately 1,700 songs. The companies want the social media network to pay up to $150,000 for every individual piece of content.
 
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Catch-22: The EU’s wish to switch from unanimity to qualified majority is as possible as it is contradictory

 
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Calls are growing for the EU to ditch its long-standing unanimity rule on foreign policy and adopt qualified majority voting in order to dent the veto power, speed up decisions and become more responsive on the global stage. The debate is far from new but gained new momentum after nine countries, including Germany and France, joined forces to set up a “group of friends” in defence of qualified majority. Is the switch even possible? According to the EU treaties: yes, it is. The bloc has several mechanisms in place to bypass its voting rules. But doing so represents a classic Catch-22.
 
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A Ukrainian volunteer who helped shuttle civilians by boat to safety from the flooded Kherson area decided to take a break to serve up a different kind of relief: a saxophone interlude.
 
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