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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12857

21 December 2021
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
EU ministers strongly support EU soil strategy but want sufficient flexibility for Member States
Brussels, 20/12/2021 (Agence Europe)

The Environment Ministers of the EU27, meeting in Brussels on Monday 20 December, gave a generally favourable reception to the new EU soil strategy, insisting on the relevance of the objectives, but also on the importance of fully respecting the principle of subsidiarity and taking into account national specificities.

The strategy, presented by the European Commission on 17 November, proposes a set of concrete measures to protect and restore degraded land and soils and ensure that by 2050...

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