(FILES) Austria's Federal minister for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility Leonore Gewessler answers jouralists' questions during the Special European Energy Ministers Council on Russian gas and petrol crisis at the EU headquarters in Brussels on May 2, 2022. Austria's conservatives vowed on June 17, 2024 to take legal action at the European Court of Justice after the environment minister helped pass an EU nature bill in defiance of the chancellor and the government. EU environment ministers approved a milestone bill aimed at restoring degraded ecosystems in the 27-nation bloc. The support of Austria's Climate Minister Leonore Gewessler, a member of the Greens, helped the EU's Nature Restoration Law obtain the majority needed to pass, but angered her country's governing conservatives, the People's Party (OeVP). (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)