“For years, Brussels has done more to protect illegal migrants from removal than to protect Europeans from the consequences of illegal migration. This text finally marks a change of direction,” Patriots MEP and former Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said.
It will be impossible to bring down von der Leyen without leftist support, but the goal is to raise awareness about the “pattern of institutional overreach, democratic disregard, and erosion of public trust” in EU governance.
Leftist MEPs demanded that Hungary be stripped of its voting rights and urged the von der Leyen commission to personally attend this month’s illegal Pride March in Budapest.
The conservatives want “to create the false impression that the rule of law in Romania is in danger,” an EPP vice chair said after his country banned the nationalist frontrunner from the presidential race.
