ZERO says 2027 state budget fails to treat environment as a strategic priority

Environmental association ZERO has criticised the government's proposed 2027 state budget, saying it wastes a chance to speed up the ecological transition. It points to roughly 2,375 million euros a year in Environment and Energy spending for 2028–2030, which it reads as planned stagnation. Its main complaints are the lack of a path to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2030, only five million euros for decarbonisation and mobility, and no instruments to make packaging producers bear the EU plastics levy. It also notes missing funding for wildfire-prevention projects and for water infrastructure works.