Hungarian opposition: adoption of EU’s Nature Restoration Law ‘huge green success’

Benedek Jávor, EU advisor to the opposition Párbeszéd party, has called it a “huge green success” that the European Parliament approved the Nature Restoration Law on Wednesday.

Speaking at an online press conference on Thursday, Jávor said the regulation was a cornerstone of the European Green Deal, and of key importance to preserving natural habitats and biodiversity.

Párbeszéd politican Jávor said “the right-wing political forces of the European Parliament did everything” they could to thwart the adoption of the regulation. Hungary’s government earlier backed the proposal in the European Council, but Fidesz MEPs, along with Márton Gyöngyösi of Jobbik, voted against it on Wednesday, Jávor said.

Source: MTI