{"id":26128,"date":"2024-04-03T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=26128"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:37:42","slug":"the-great-green-retreat-of-the-eu-benefits-the-far-right-for-the-rest-of-us-it-is-a-looming-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/04\/03\/the-great-green-retreat-of-the-eu-benefits-the-far-right-for-the-rest-of-us-it-is-a-looming-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU&#039;s Great Green Retreat Benefits the Far Right. For the Rest of Us, It&#039;s a Threatening Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s Great Green Extinction has been nothing short of spectacular. As aggressive lobbying and violent protests by farmers increased last year, Brussels killed plans to halve pesticide use, switch to organic farming practices, ban toxic chemicals \u201cforever,\u201d cap livestock emissions, and last week restore 20 trillion tons of Europe\u2019s land and seas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-vmkf2w\">The aim may have been to create breathing space. Predictably, it didn\u2019t work. The bloc\u2019s anti-deforestation regulation seems likely to be another green reform for the move, with 20 agriculture ministers reportedly calling on Monday for its repeal and suspension, citing \u201cadministrative burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-vmkf2w\">Why is this happening? It is clear that the centre-right parties are worried about the expected far-right uprising in the June parliamentary elections. But experienced observers also see a strategic effort to set a \u201cbrown\u201d agenda for the next European Commission, just as the Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion youth protests of 2018 set a green agenda for the current one. (<em>Arthur Neslen, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/02\/eu-green-deal-far-right-environment-agribusiness-extremists?utm_source=cbnewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=2024-04-03&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+03+04+2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">theguardian.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s Great Green Extinction has been nothing short of spectacular. As aggressive lobbying and violent protests by farmers increased last year, Brussels killed plans to halve pesticide use, switch to organic farming practices, ban toxic \u201cforever\u201d chemicals, limit livestock emissions and, last week, restore 20 % of Europe\u2019s land and seas. The aim could have been to create breathing room. Predictably, it didn\u2019t work [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}