Blockade abandoned
Vienna and Carinthia welcome EU renaturation law
The previous blockade of the federal states on the EU renaturation law has begun to crumble. The provincial governments of Vienna and Carinthia will ask to "move closer to the regulation after all", it was reported on Friday.
Vienna's mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) wrote this on Platform X. His government had always viewed the EU renaturation regulation positively. "Especially because we in Vienna have long been demonstrating how species and habitat protection works in many areas," said City Councillor for Climate Action Jürgen Czernohorszky (SPÖ) in a press release. A lot has happened at EU level and, according to him, many concerns about the original proposal have been dispelled.
Vote postponed
The planned law provides for more forests to be reforested, moors to be rewetted and rivers to be restored to their natural state (see video above). After lengthy negotiations, it was passed in the EU Parliament in a watered-down form that took many points of criticism into account. At the end of March, however, it was removed from the agenda at the Council of EU Environment Ministers at short notice when no majority emerged.
Gewessler: "Project always supported"
So far, the regulation has been rejected by all federal states. Now Vienna and Carinthia have given up their blockades. It currently seems unlikely that others will follow suit. Lower Austria's Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) referred on Friday to a circular that had still raised concerns. Agriculture in particular would be threatened by the EU plans, and she also pointed out the additional bureaucratization.
"I have always supported this project - but Austria was unable to agree to it due to the uniform rejection of the federal states. I therefore find the initiative of the two federal states very sensible (...)", said Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) in an initial reaction. The next EU Environment Council is scheduled for June 17 in Luxembourg.
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