The Green 10 expresses grave concerns about direction of Commission reorganisation and priorities in an open letter to President Juncker today.
With the new structure of the Commission and the clear priorities focusing on growth and competitiveness, the alliance of EU environmental NGOs calling themselves the Green 10 fears that the changes will lead to a “de facto shut down of EU environmental policy making”.
It is their view that the combination of the structure, the new priorities, the “Mission letters” to the new Commissioners, the choice of Commissioners, as well as a mandate to review key pieces of EU nature conservation legislation reveals a serious downgrading of environment.
Despite the fact that a majority of EU citizens consider the environment a priority issue, these changes may “destroy Europe’s standing in the world as a pioneer and champion of tackling the global ecological crisis and switching to a green economy” and result in a roll back of existing EU commitments to sustainable development, on resource efficiency, air quality, chemicals policy, biodiversity protection and climate action.
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