
The EU’s political shift to the right – and the dumping of its greenest-ever parliament – has fuelled worries over the future of the bloc’s flagship Green Deal and plans to turn Europe into the world’s first climate-neutral continent.
Suffering a loss of 18 seats and performing particularly badly in France and Germany, the Greens-EFA group has emerged as a major loser in EU parliamentary elections that gave populist parties a big jolt while still favouring the centrists.