ECR Split About Supporting von der Leyen
Meloni considers backing Commission president’s reelection in exchange for key role for Italy
Meloni considers backing Commission president’s reelection in exchange for key role for Italy
The Poles will remain in the group, despite differences over Fidesz’ exclusion.
The European Commission chief will need the backing of one or both groups to be guaranteed reelection, but in public, Meloni’s ECR is being sidelined again.
“No true democrat can accept” a select few deciding for everyone else, the furious Italian PM said.
Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz will not join Meloni’s ECR alliance but stressed the need for European conservative parties to work together.
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.
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While the self-employed showed relative preference for Matteo Salvini’s Lega, the PM’s party easily overcame socialists as the favoured party of the Italian working class.
Euro-populists led by VOX brought coherence to the right-wing agenda ahead of June’s European elections.
European right-wing forces are expected to make gains at the European elections.
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