‘Drastically unfair’ – landowners hit out after EU passes Nature Restoration Law

Environmental campaigners react with joy and relief

Denis Drennan, of farming group the ICMSA, said the new law was ‘drastically unfair’ and an intrusion on private property. Photo: Dylan Vaughan

Caroline O'Doherty

The passing of one of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation in EU history has been simultaneously greeted as a win for nature and citizens and a “disgusting act of political ­cynicism”.

The Nature Restoration Law was finally signed into law after 20 countries agreed to back it yesterday.