The latest act in the EU’s long-running farce concerning Central European member states was played out on Monday. The Austrian environment minister, Leonore Gewessler of the Green party, at the very last moment abandoned her coalition government’s agreed position and voted to approve the EU’s “nature restoration law”, the flagship policy of the EU’s Green Deal. This aims to make the bloc carbon-neutral by 2050.
The law itself has been extremely controversial.
While EU environmentalists insist that Europe lacks green space, that 80 per cent of…
