EPP Chief: Europe Must Get Ready for War
Saying Trump won’t protect Europe, centre-right bloc president joined the Eurocrats who want to turn the EU into a defense union with its own nuclear shield.
Saying Trump won’t protect Europe, centre-right bloc president joined the Eurocrats who want to turn the EU into a defense union with its own nuclear shield.
Addressing the Spanish PM directly, the head of the centrist European People’s Party said, “It is obvious that this is about you, about your career, not about Spain or Europe.”
Morawiecki blasted Manfred Weber for subverting Polish democracy over recent EU rule of law debates.
EPP boss Manfred Weber is bothered by AfD’s right turn as parliamentary calculus draws conservatives and more moderate populists together in the European Parliament.
The defeat seriously undermines EPP President Manfred Weber and calls into question future alliances for the EPP after the European elections in 2024.
After describing Macron’s stance as a “disaster,” Weber added that his controversial remarks had “weakened the European Union.”
The raid has affected the EPP’s tense office politics amid a larger pushback against plans to take the group to the Right ahead of the 2024 elections.
“Now would be the right time to decide to abolish unanimity” voting in the Council, said the EPP chief, suggesting reforms toward deeper EU integration.
Controversy surrounding the EPP’s leader may only be a sign of conflicting ideas concerning the future direction of the EU Parliament’s biggest political group.
“The new majority may be formed by the People’s Party, Conservative and Reformists, and Identity and Democracy. The rapprochement between the ECR and the EPP and the Meloni-Weber talks should be seen as a step taken toward this end,” Francesco Giubilei, a special Italian ministerial advisor, said.
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