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MEPs to vote on appointment of Wopke Hoekstra after his endorsement by environment committee

Progressive policies are at stake as conservatives attempt to forge alliances in the European parliament with extreme nationalists, says Paul Taylor of the Friends of Europe thinktank

Elections are due next year in some of the world’s biggest democracies, including the US, India and Indonesia, heralding the possibility of significant political upheaval across the globe.

‘Those Irish votes were critical, those Irish votes swung it,’ Green Party leader and Minister Eamon Ryan said.

The European Parliament has backed a key biodiversity bill aimed at rewilding EU land and water habitats by a slim majority, overcoming a backlash by conservative lawmakers who said it would hurt farmers.

MEPs back law to place recovery measures on 20% of EU’s land and sea by 2030 by dozen votes

The European Union's parliament on Wednesday backed a major plan to protect nature and fight climate change in a cliffhanger vote that had the 27-nation bloc's global green credentials at stake.

The future of the EU’s flagship environment law hangs in the balance after a coalition of centrist and right-wing parties mounted an attack campaign in the European Parliament. The Nature Restoration Law now heads to a decisive vote on Wednesday with the EU’s climate neutrality targets at stake.

Editorial: Opposition by mainstream conservatives to key parts of the package is part of an insidious trend

Nature Restoration Law vote tied at 44 in favour and 44 against amid claims of lies and fake news

Bloc hopes to set global standard for technology – including ban on police use of live facial recognition technology in public places