Brussels will welcome its eighth parliamentary group in just a few days, but the final composition will likely be negotiated until the last minute.

The German national conservatives have given up on rejoining ID and will instead lead their own group further to the right.

ECR co-president Nicola Procaccini: AUR party has ‘changed’; no longer too extreme to join the group.

Israel warned about the conflict being on the “brink of wider escalation with devastating consequences.”

The party had been frequently criticized for its extreme views in the past, yet now is part of Giorgia Meloni’s “constructive center-right force” in Brussels.

Only 21% of failed asylum seekers were deported and just 8% of Dublin transfers carried out.

Hungary and Slovakia to endorse outgoing Dutch PM as NATO chief—with strings attached.

Hungarian opposition Tisza party accepted despite opposing weapons and troops to Ukraine, contrary to EPP stance.

“AUR has no interest in promoting the common good,” says MEP representing Romania’s ethnic Hungarian community in Brussels during a time of growing tensions back home. 

Four MEPs split from Zemmour’s Reconquete party, aiming to stay in ECR and not join Marine Le Pen’s ID group.

“They don’t care about reality, they don’t care about the results of the European elections, and they don’t care about the will of the European people.”—Hungarian PM Orbán.

President Zelensky declared the one-sided peace conference a “success” despite BRICS heavy-weights like China and India refusing to sign the final declaration.