"Salvation over the next four years will not come from politics" (Saskia Bricmont, MEP/Greens)

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"We are facing an eminently political problem today, because unfortunately, the European right-wing party has turned ecology into an ideological warhorse to destroy all the environmental legislation. Fortunately, the players on the ground are continuing to mobilise. Since salvation over the next four years will not come from politics, a European network would enable us to share best practices, work together and be stronger", Saskia Bricmont, Belgian Green MEP, told News Tank in Strasbourg on 22/10/2025.

"A new strategy is being put in place within the European Parliament. For a year now, we have been in a process of deregulation, not simplification, as the European right-wing party would have us believe, and it's clear that in all the political groups, more and more MEPs are fed up with the EPP and the way it plays between this progressive pro-European majority that wants to continue to move forward and prevent environmental setbacks, and the far right with which it is now openly prepared to ally itself."

"The Commission's Omnibus on sustainability penalises the good performers among…

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