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Greta Thunberg’s Bold Gesture in the EU Parliament Sparks Debate: The Controversial Renaturation Law
2023-07-12 20:51:29
Greta Thunberg does not shy away from attention when it comes to the climate. In the EU Parliament, she celebrated a vote with a clear gesture.
Things got hot in the EU Parliament, the deputies got excited regarding the renaturation law, and there was bitter resistance from the right-wing factions. When this was up for voting on Wednesday, a well-known climate activist also watched over the process: Greta Thunberg was sitting in the spectator stand. She commented on the acceptance of the law with a clear gesture, apparently directed at the opponents: she gave them the middle finger with both hands.
Photographs show her sitting in the stands with another young woman and laughing. The 20-year-old’s companion gave her two thumbs up. Thunberg is currently facing another protest in Sweden. She is said to have disobeyed police instructions during a protest in Malmö. You face a fine.
Narrow majority for renaturation law
In Parliament, she left it at the stinky finger gesture. She had previously appealed to MPs. “Our message to politicians is to choose nature and people instead of profit and greed,” she told the European Parliament.
The EU Parliament voted in favor of the renaturation law once morest massive opposition from conservative and right-wing MPs. However, a narrow majority of MPs voted in Strasbourg on Wednesday for a significantly weakened draft of the nature conservation law. Nevertheless, environmentalists welcomed the decision as groundbreaking. The farmers’ association, on the other hand, fears burdens for farmers.
The draft law envisages that endangered ecosystems in the EU will be restored in the coming decades. By 2030, renaturation measures are to be introduced for at least 20 percent of the surfaces and sea areas in the EU. Restrictions on the use of pesticides are also planned. However, a number of requirements, such as the re-irrigation of drained moors, were relaxed by Parliament.
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