Wolves have adapted swiftly and surely to human-dominated landscapes. But people are struggling to adjust to the wolves. The concentration of packs, von der Leyen declared when announcing the commission’s review of wolf protection laws, “has become a real danger for livestock and potentially also for humans”.

In December, the commission proposed to reduce the wolf’s status under the Bern Convention from “strictly protected” to “protected” in order to introduce “further flexibility” – potentially enabling wolves to be hunted and populations reduced across the EU.

Many populist politicians across Europe hope that talking up the threat of the wolf – alongside tough measures to tackle it – will win support ahead of next summer’s elections to the European parliament.

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    EU commission president, former german minister of defence, conservative party. Advocate for strong internet censorship

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        Oh, I thought only southern countries sent our controversial and/or senile politicians to brussels.

        PS: Apologies for the european foreign minister/representative, we didn’t manage to sew his mouth shut here either.

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          I thought that was an exclusively German custom, because for us Germans, the EU Commission pretty much equals a toxic waste dump for politicians who are so bad that they have become unusable for domestic purposes.