Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002251/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Maria Zacharia (NI)
Following successive waves of catastrophic fires, uncontrolled industrial renewable energy installation, the commercialisation of land and the lack of meaningful restoration, nature in Greece is being driven to collapse. Greek forests, flora and fauna are at risk of complete desertification. The region of Attica has lost 37 % of its forests over the last eight years, while Euboea, the Peloponnese, Rhodes and Western Greece are facing similar decline. As a Mediterranean country in the front line of the climate crisis, Greece sees its environmental value shrinking dramatically, without an institutional or national protection plan.
Can the Commission therefore say:
- 1.Does it intend to recognise Greece as a Member State of high environmental vulnerability under Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 on nature restoration?
- 2.Will it invite the Greek Government to draw up a national map of areas of full environmental protection, with an explicit ban on commercial exploitation reducing the level of green coverage?
- 3.What financial support is available for targeted reforestation with resistant, endemic species?
Submitted: 4.6.2025