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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

EU nature restoration laws face collapse as member states withdraw support

Tractors block traffic during a farmer's protest
Polish farmers protesting against the European green deal. Many of the EU’s nature rules have been weakened. Photograph: Lech Muszyński/EPA

The EU’s nature restoration laws appear on the verge of collapse after eight member states, including Hungary and Italy, withdrew support for the legislation.

The laws, which have been two years in the making and are designed to reverse decades of damage to wildlife on land and in waterways, were supposed to be rubber-stamped in a vote on Monday.

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