{"id":54973,"date":"2024-02-27T19:48:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54973"},"modified":"2025-02-27T00:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:20:03","slug":"the-european-nature-restoration-law-that-threatens-the-agricultural-sector-is-approved-this-is-what-each-group-and-party-voted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/27\/the-european-nature-restoration-law-that-threatens-the-agricultural-sector-is-approved-this-is-what-each-group-and-party-voted-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The European 'nature restoration' law that threatens the agricultural sector is approved: this is what each group and party voted for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->In the midst of farmers' protests in several European countries, the European Parliament has dealt a new blow to the primary sector.<\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/07\/farmers-protests-show-lack-of-democracy-in-the-european-union\/\">Farmers' protests show lack of democracy in the European Union<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/11\/ban-combustion-engine-vehicles-in-the-eu-in-2035-who-decided-and-with-what-right\/\">Ban combustion-engine vehicles in the EU in 2035: Who decided and with what right?<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Today the European Parliament has approved the so-called \"nature restoration law\". <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/TA-9-2024-0089_EN.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The approved text can be read here. <\/a> One of the biggest controversies of this law refers to the fact that it requires the removal of barriers from rivers, so <strong>many reservoirs could be demolished in its application<\/strong>, with the consequent damage to the water supply and the agricultural sector that needs it so much.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the approval of this law, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VOX_Europa_\/status\/1762512539655479533\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Europa has noted<\/a>: \"<em><strong>By 54 votes we have not managed to overthrow the crazy nature restoration law, which will destroy our dams and take our production to Asia and Africa.<\/strong> But in the EPP<\/em> [European People's Party ] <em>25 voted in favor, 27 did not vote and 10 abstained. It was so easy for us!\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This controversial law <strong>has come forward mainly due to the support of the left, but also due to the division in the European People's Party<\/strong>. The voting results can be consulted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/PV-9-2024-02-27-RCV_ES.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (point 9). The law has been approved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/es\/press-room\/20240223IPR18078\/nueva-ley-para-restaurar-el-20-del-suelo-y-el-mar-de-la-ue\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">329 votes in favor, 275 against and 24 abstentions<\/a>. <strong>This is what each parliamentary group has voted for<\/strong> (Non-Inscrits are not included in the list):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D): 117 in favor<\/strong>, 4 against, 3 abstentions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>European People's Party (EPP): 115 against<\/strong>, 25 in favor, 10 abstentions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Renew Europe (RE): 60 in favor<\/strong>, 30 against, 6 abstentions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Greens\/European Free Alliance (Verts \/ ALE): 69 in favor<\/strong>, 2 abstentions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR): 61 against<\/strong>, 3 in favor, 1 abstention.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Identity and Democracy (ID): 50 against.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>European United Left \/ Nordic Green Left (The Left): 29 in favor<\/strong>, 3 against.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand, <strong>this is what each Spanish party has voted for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PSOE \/ PSC (S&D):<\/strong> 17 in favor, 1 against, 3 have not voted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Partido Popular (PPE):<\/strong> 13 against.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vox (ECR):<\/strong> 4 against.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Podemos (The Left):<\/strong> 3 in favor, 1 has not voted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Izquierda Unida (The Left):<\/strong> 1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anticapitalistas (The Left):<\/strong> 1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ciudadanos (RE):<\/strong> 2 against, 2 abstentions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Partido Nacionalista Vasco (RE):<\/strong> 1 against.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Javier Nart, independent (RE):<\/strong> 1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maite Pagazaurtund\u00faa, independent (RE):<\/strong> 1 against.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Verts \/ ALE):<\/strong> 2 in favor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bloque Nacionalista Galego (Verts \/ ALE):<\/strong> 1 abstention.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Junts per Catalunya (NI):<\/strong> 1 in favor, 2 did not vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In June of this year there will be new European elections.<\/strong> Take good note of this to decide your vote.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: European Parliament.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[4260,428,4267,382,12035,15884,10454,16911,12774,15770,1062,11339,21260,120,641,693,7841,21256,15253,21257,7535],"class_list":["post-54973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-anticapitalistas","tag-bng","tag-ciudadanos-cs","tag-erc","tag-european-parliament","tag-european-peoples-party-epp","tag-european-union","tag-european-united-left","tag-group-of-european-conservatives-and-reformists-ecr","tag-identity-and-democracy","tag-izquierda-unida","tag-junts-per-catalunya","tag-nature-restoration-law","tag-pnv","tag-partido-popular","tag-psoe","tag-podemos","tag-progressive-alliance-of-socialists-and-democrats-sd","tag-renew-europe","tag-the-greens-of-europe","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}