On Tuesday 22 October in Strasbourg, several members of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament deplored the fact that environmentalists are no longer listened to by the President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, even though they helped to get her re-elected (see EUROPE B13456A1).
These environmentalists also criticised the changes in the President-elect’s position on a number of issues, notably migration, and her backtracking on the pledges given to the...