Author: Euronews

After months of setbacks and difficult negotiations between the EU Council and the European Parliament, environment ministers voted today in Luxembourg to pass the Nature Restoration Law. ADVERTISEMENTEnvironment ministers meeting in Luxembourg today (June 17) adopted the Nature Restoration Law after months of difficult negotiations between the co-legislators, with Austria clearing a long-standing deadlock following a last-minute change of heart.Belgium scheduled today’s public debate on the blocked biodiversity legislation – proposed in 2022 – intended to reverse decades of ecosystem degradation, after failing to break a deadlock during back-room diplomatic talks last week.The European Parliament had adopted the legislation, which…

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Rescue workers reportedly found the bodies of 10 suspected migrants below the deck of a wooden boat off Italy’s Lampedusa island. ADVERTISEMENTRoughly a dozen suspected migrants have died during a failed travel attempt in Mediterranean waters on Monday, German aid group Resqship said. The group wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Resqship crew were “caring” for 51 people evacuated off the boat. “The rescue came too late for 10 people,” according to the post.”Two of whom were unconscious – they had to be cut free with an axe,” the group says online. The southern Italian island – close to North Africa…

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