
Weber Tightens Grip as EPP Buries Its Head in the Sand
In the face of mounting pressure across Europe, the party opts for unity over reforms that could solve its legitimacy crisis.

In the face of mounting pressure across Europe, the party opts for unity over reforms that could solve its 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.

For Tusk’s KO, upholding the cordon sanitaire is more important than trying to uphold an image of a ‘center-right’ party.

Von der Leyen and Manfred Weber will assist CDU leader in keeping the European project alive by putting pressure on political forces who don’t fall in line.

Manfred Weber is known for “bending rules,” inside sources told The European Conservative.

EPP “has become dysfunctional” and decisions are made by Manfred Weber “and a close circle of advisers instead of the member parties,” investigative journalist says.

In a remarkable drum-beating display in Strasbourg last week, the legal mask slipped, the velvet gloves came off, and the EU elites declared war on Hungary.

“There was a time when we were told what to do. We got rid of that era thirty years ago,” the PM said in a reference to the Soviet rule of his country.

Hungarian opposition leader and new MEP Péter Magyar is suspected of theft after a brawl and could face prison time.

Péter Magyar says joining the centrist group would give the “best chance of gaining important positions in the European Parliament.”