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The EU's new law on deforestation was adopted by a large cross-party majority in the European Parliament only last year (Photo: Dave Herring)

EPP demands delay of 'bureaucratic monster' deforestation law

The centre-right European People’s Party has upped the pressure on the EU Commission to delay plans to apply new due diligence rules in order to tackle deforestation, describing the new regime as “a bureaucratic monster”. 

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The EU's new law on deforestation was adopted by a large cross-party majority in the European Parliament only last year (Photo: Dave Herring)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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