{"id":1762,"date":"2016-06-24T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eebtestsite.oldcontinent.eu\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2017-05-22T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:09:10","slug":"eeb-reaction-to-the-uk-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/eeb-reaction-to-the-uk-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"EEB reaction to the UK referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Jeremy Wates, EEB Secretary General<\/strong>, said:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is bad news for the UK, Europe and the environment. All evidence shows that the\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12151\">EU has brought many environmental benefits for citizens and nature across Europe. It is tragic that these advantages failed to help convince a majority of people in the UK to vote remain. It is uncertain exactly what will happen next. However, it is clear that the\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12153\">calls by UK Prime\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12155\">Minister David<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12157\">\u00a0Cameron for EU reform based on haphazardly slashing red tape<\/span>\u00a0did not influence the debate.\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12161\">Instead of giving\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12163\">in<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12167\">to<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12169\">\u00a0short-term demands, it should now be clear to the European Commission, MEPs and Member States that another way forward is needed to create a Europe that listens to its citizens and that is fit to tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century, not least\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1466493397597_12171\">by stepping up EU measures to address<\/span>\u00a0climate change, resource depletion and ecosystem collapse.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Wates, EEB Secretary General, said: \u201cThis is bad news for the UK, Europe and the environment. All evidence shows that the\u00a0EU has brought many environmental<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-release","tag-reaction"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/OECD.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}