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A push to reject the new legislation fell short in a key Parliament vote, but EPP lawmakers say they’ll keep fighting against it.

European Parliament's environment committee voted against a proposal Thursday that could have derailed a draft law aimed at restoring nature and protecting species across the continent.

The proposal to eliminate a draft law aimed at revitalizing nature and preserving endangered species throughout Europe was narrowly rejected by the European Parliament's environment committee on Thursday. The motion presented by the conservative European People's Party was defeated as the 88-member committee was evenly split, with 44 votes against and 44 votes in favor.The

New rules aimed at restoring nature have unleashed a major fight that endangers the EU’s climate agenda.

France finds itself at a tug-of-war between opponents to megabasins and the agricultural sector.

The EU's financial aid provided to the 'frontline' countries neighbouring Ukraine has been controversial, with the €100 million support package funded with Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) money to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia extensively criticised by all sides.

Head of the European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Pascal Canfin,  wants to hold a hearing with agrochemical giants Bayer and Syngenta after researchers accused them of withholding information on the brain toxicity risk of pesticides. 

In a sign that world geopolitics is shifting before our eyes, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said ahead of the ongoing summit of the BRICS states that the global order needs a rebalancing away from the Western powers, asserting the BRICS' wish to provide the necessary counterweight. 

EU agriculture lawmakers have approved their opinion on the EU's nature restoration law which rejects the whole proposal, effectively leaving the agriculture committee ‘without a voice’ in the final draft.

Some argue the answer to Europe's problems is deregulating gene modification techniques to produce better crops.