STRASBOURG — Talks on new EU legislation to collect data and monitor the resilience of European forests to climate change are deadlocked over a disagreement between the main centrist forces in the European Parliament.
One last round of negotiations among political groups had been due to take place this week, but it was canceled after the lead lawmakers on the file realized it wouldn’t be possible to find a compromise.
The impasse is another sign that the centrist majority that put Ursula von der Leyen at the helm of the European Commission is faltering — and that it’s becoming harder to agree on new environmental legislation following the Parliament’s shift to the right following last year’s elections.
The lead lawmakers on the file, centrist Emma Wiesner and Socialist Eric Sargiacomo, are blaming the center-right European People’s Party for blocking the negotiations and not showing enough flexibility.
