BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The fate of the European Union’s flagship law to restore nature hung in the balance on Thursday after a chaotic vote in which lawmakers decided not to reject the bill entirely but then ran out of time to agree what should be in it.
The EU Parliament’s environment committee will continue voting on potential compromises on the law on June 27.
Some lawmaker groups had drafted an overall compromise deal ahead of Thursday. But the committee rejected it – forcing lawmakers to vote on hundreds of individual amendments, a process that took more than three hours and ultimately failed to finish by the meeting’s end.
(Reporting by Kate Abnett; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
