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The environmental catastrophe is so urgent, eventually even the EPP should realise they need to stop sawing off the branch we're all sitting on (Photo: Johannes Plenio)

The Big Agri lobby and the EPP threaten to destroy Green Deal

It's quite simple: if you destroy something, you have to fix it. But what every kindergarten child already understands is falling on deaf ears among the largest political group in the European Parliament — the centre-right European People's Party.

Over the last decades we have depleted 70 percent of soils, drastically increased the desertification of farmland, and put more than 80 percent of natural habitats in "poor condition" in Europe. Clean water and air, food security, and protecti...

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Silvia Modig is a Finnish MEP and coordinator for The Left Group in the environment committee.

The environmental catastrophe is so urgent, eventually even the EPP should realise they need to stop sawing off the branch we're all sitting on (Photo: Johannes Plenio)

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Silvia Modig is a Finnish MEP and coordinator for The Left Group in the environment committee.

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