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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ajit Niranjan

Fears for Green Deal as number of MEPs from climate-denying parties set to rise

Tractor carrying a billboard reading 'no farmers, no food' driving on a road in front of the Atomium in Brussels as other tractors follow behind
A tractor protest in Brussels last week. EU policies increasing short-term costs for farmers are among those to have attracted most ire from the right. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP

The new European parliament is on course to have more politicians from parties that deny climate science and fewer from parties that want to cut pollution faster.

The results of the four-day election, which are still being finalised, show sizeable gains for far-right parties and a drop in support for the Greens that has cost them about a quarter of their seats. It has raised fears that the EU is about to put the brakes on climate ambitions that have helped set pollution-cutting standards globally.

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