Ribera considers it “irresponsible” to allow the first major law to recover the EU's biodiversity to fail. After its difficult approval in the European Parliament, where the right and extreme right tried to overthrow it, the Nature Restoration Law is once again stuck in the final vote of the States.

The key currently lies with Hungary, since it has changed its initial vote in favor of expressing its opposition to a regulation – be it a negative vote or abstention, in this type of vote both count as a no – that it considers too "ideologized"