El Periódico says that 88 percent of European fish stocks are overfished and that the survival of 22 percent of European species is threatened by “increasingly aggressive” species invading from other ecosystems.

For its part, French daily Le Monde condemns the “miserable failure” of the previous plan of the EU, and stresses that the objectives set on May 3 “mark a rift in the community approach” as “the document ceases to make biodiversity an autonomous sector and imposes its objectives on the sectoral policies of the Union – agriculture, forestry, fishing – where the  impact is greatest.” Le Monde notes that Potočnik, with the ambitious objectives of the plan, “blithely tramples on the toes of his colleagues in agriculture and fisheries”, which could create “frictions” in Brussels and among member states. The document will be discussed in Parliament before the end of the year.