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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondent

Why are Green parties polling badly for the European elections?

A woman speaks on a mobile phone as she walks past a Green party election poster reading Einigkeit gegen rechts für freiheit (Unity against the right for freedom)
A woman walks past a Green party election poster in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

Voters may deal Green parties a blow that costs them up to one-third of their seats, if polls before this week’s European elections prove correct, in a shift that could lead to a rollback of climate policies with the effects rippling far beyond the continent.

At first glance, the projected slump in support – which follows months of protests from farmers against environmental rules – reads like a backlash against climate policies set by politicians who tried to move too far, too fast.

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