
Why Weber’s Power Grab Won’t Solve the EPP’s Legitimacy Crisis
At the end of the day, parties are accountable to their voters, and not to some supranational structure lacking the very demos it claims to represent.

At the end of the day, parties are accountable to their voters, and not to some supranational structure lacking the very demos it claims to represent.

Slovakia’s social-democratic Smer party is in pole position to win the elections this September and has unsettled its EU partners with its pro-Kremlin sympathies and drift to the right, courting parties on the extreme right.

The continent is decidedly moving towards the Right. This could mean that the current balance of power in Brussels could radically change in favor of the center-Right in 2024.

Despite the Union’s foreign policy spokesman’s statements, it remains to be seen whether the apparent rapprochement between the ECR and the EPP will lead to a common strategy at the European level.

A new center-right party, the Bündnis Deutschland (BD), was founded by 50 ex-members of other German parties. The BD aims to be the voice of the neglected middle class, but the media has already framed it as right-wing.