EU 2024: AfD’s Turn Right Rattles EPP President
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.
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.
German EU top brass continues to try to interfere with the formation of the Italian government following the resounding success of Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia. An open letter by the EU vice president now insinuates Meloni denies the Holocaust.
Current EPP chairman, Donald Tusk, will step down officially in April.
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