European Union|The Greens and the Left Alliance reacted with joy to the surprising passage of the EU restoration regulation. The center demands an explanation from the government as to why it was not possible to block the decree.
Opposition on Monday, the green and left-wing representatives rejoiced at the surprise turn, in which the EU restoration regulation was approved with the support of Austria and despite the opposition of the Finnish government.
“This is a historic day. The regulation is the largest and most significant act of nature at the European level. It also has significance worldwide,” wrote the Green MP, chairman of the environmental committee Jenni Pitko message service in X.
” – – I am ashamed of Finland’s hard work to overturn the regulation. Here, Finland remains on the wrong side of history,” Pitko continued.
Finland voted against the regulation, and on Monday the Minister of the Environment Kai Mykkänen (kok) repeated Finland’s negative position also at the meeting of EU environment ministers, where the matter was decided.
The greens with the same line was also a member of parliament belonging to the environmental committee of the left-wing coalition Mai Kivelä.
“Nature won, Finland’s reactionary, nature-hating and ecological situation-disputing government lost,” Kivelä commented in his press release.
Member of Parliament from Sdp, who is part of the environmental committee Pinja Perholehto said he was satisfied with the passage of the regulation.
“The main thing is that this is progressing and now we can also discuss in Finland what it means in practice.”
In Finland, there has been a lot of discussion about the regulation around forests, even though its effects on water bodies are greater in Finland. Perholehto is waiting to get into the watershed discussion.
“If only that side would come out better now.”
Of the opposition parties the center has opposed the regulation from the beginning.
In the European Parliament, representatives of the center and basic Finns voted against the regulation. The other Finnish representatives – including members of the coalition – voted in favor.
The new vice president of the centre Hilkka Kemppi approached the media with a press release that also criticized the government for the opposite reason than the Greens and the Left Alliance.
In the center’s opinion, the government should have opposed the decree better.
“How can it be that the government brags in parliament that it has blocked the EU restoration regulation, but then it gets approved without prior warning. Forest policy belongs to the member countries, which is why the decision is unreasonable for Finland,” Kemppi said in the press release.
“I demand an explanation from the government, why there has been such a lull in influencing the EU,” Kemppi continued.
Environment Minister Mykkänen told media representatives on Monday that the matter was resolved by the Austrian Environment Minister’s change of heart came to Finland as a surprise.
Restore setting stipulates that in 20 percent of the EU’s territories, actions must be taken to restore nature closer to its original state.
The regulation was enacted because the member states’ own actions have not stopped the endangerment of habitat types and species in Europe.
Finland’s coalition-led government has opposed the regulation because it considers that its costs in Finland will become too high.
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