(ANSA-AFP) - VIENNA, JUN 17 - Austria's conservatives vowed
Monday to take legal action at the European Court of Justice
after the environment minister helped pass an EU nature bill in
defiance of the chancellor and the government. EU environment
ministers on Monday approved a milestone bill aimed at restoring
degraded ecosystems in the 27-nation bloc. The support of
Austria's Climate Minister Leonore Gewessler, a member of the
Greens, helped the EU's Nature Restoration Law obtain the
majority needed to pass, but angered her country's governing
conservatives, the People's Party (OeVP). Right-wing Chancellor
Karl Nehammer said the government would file a complaint at the
European court against an "unlawful" vote. "No one is above the
law," the chancellor's office said in a statement, adding that
it would file a separate criminal complaint against Gewessler in
Austria claiming "abuse of office". (ANSA-AFP).
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