Danti (Renew): “The green light to the nature law is a defeat for both Weber and the Commission”

The European Parliament approves a law weakened by right-wing amendments. “The EPP attempted the shoulder and failed. The left rejoices, but in normal situations they would not have voted for that text. They all lost”, says the vice president of the European liberals

Theatre, more than politics. And a final result hostage to opposing extremisms. “They all lost.” Nicholas Danti, vice-president of Renew Europe, the liberal group which also includes the Third Pole in the European Parliament, does not hide a certain skepticism, after the vote of the Strasbourg Assembly which gave the green light to the law on the restoration of nature with 336 votes in favour, 300 against and 13 abstentions. We will now move on to the negotiation phase with the European Council. “It is objectively a defeat of Manfred Weber and of the strategy of the Populars, who attempted the push, looking for an alternative majority to the one that supports von der Leyen, and eventually experienced quite a few internal defections. But it is also the Commission’s defeat, because now we find a text that is the antithesis of what he intended to propose with the project presented by Vice-President Franz Timmermans “, he tells Il Foglio.