Wermelin was elected into parliament in the 2015 Danish general election and re-elected in 2019. She was appointed Minister for the Environment on 27 June 2019.[3]
Positions
The 2021 European Commission's draft guidance of the EU's Biodiversity Strategy said that strictly protected areas should be safeguarded to retain the “non-disturbance or natural processes” upon which they depend. Hunting and fishing in these areas is banned, according to the 2021 draft. Danish hunters and fishers protested against this rules. Wermelin said, “no matter what the final wording is, it is and will be only a guide and therefore not law ... The European Commission does not have — and does not receive with the guidance — authority to ban hunting on Danish soil.”[4]