If you care about the environment, you should care about the upcoming EU elections on 23-26 May

How about protecting the environment? Safeguarding the living world isn’t something most of us would naturally think about when it comes to what the EU is responsible for. So it might come as a surprise to hear that a large chunk of EU laws govern how clean our air or water should be, or how to produce our food and energy.

This is a side of the EU that rarely makes the papers. But the EU has rolled out dozens of laws and directives aimed and benefiting the natural world.

The EU has done many good things on the environment. And if Europeans elect the right people to the European Parliament at elections taking place this May, it could do even more.

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