A beacon of accountability or judicial overreach?
Sir, – Amid the disconcerting developments in European environmental policy, the recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights concerning the Swiss government’s inadequate climate action emerges as not merely opportune, but indispensable .
Recent setbacks are alarming: the dilution of essential environmental safeguards in the Common Agricultural Policy, the obstruction of the Nature Restoration Law, and a troubling pivot in the EU’s strategic priorities away from sustainability towards commercial and military interests, as highlighted in the letter “ECHR decision on climate case and judicial overreach” .
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