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Bears, cars and angry farmers fuel green backlash
A 28-country guide to how climate policies are
splitting Europe.
FEBRUARY
22, 2024 5:00 AM CET
BY KARL
MATHIESEN, NICOLAS CAMUT, ZIA WEISE, CHARLIE COOPER AND LOUISE GUILLOT
Europe’s
hopes for a greener future are being doused in pesticides, thrown in the
furnace, hunted down, hit by cars and crushed by herds of cows.
And Green
parties are taking the hit — polling shows they will face deep electoral pain
when EU citizens vote in June. European Commission President Ursula von der
Leyen is also trying to run away from the green parts of her legacy. In fact,
those pushing for faster action to protect the climate and nature are being
left high and dry almost everywhere, fighting to recapture momentum.
According
to a POLITICO survey of national debates taking place in the EU and the U.K.,
hard-right and center-right politicians are seeking to drive wedges between
voters and the champions of green policy — fueling and feeding on a sense of
grievance. They argue that climate zealotry has gone too far, too fast, that
the costs are too great, or, in rarer cases, that climate change is a fantasy.(
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