The new European environment commissioner has called strong opposition from key member states to EU-level legislation protecting soils "not logical."
"The argument barely stands up. It seems to me not so clearly logical," commissioner Janez Potocnik told reporters following a discussion by EU environment ministers on the state of play with one of Europe's most badly delayed pieces of legislation.
"I will try to talk to ministers from the so-called blocking minority about what are ...
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