
AfD Reinstates Controversial MPs to Party Parliamentary Group
With its new delegation of 152 deputies, Alice Weidel’s party has no intention of letting itself be intimidated.
With its new delegation of 152 deputies, Alice Weidel’s party has no intention of letting itself be intimidated.
The party’s leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla outlined plans to make the AfD a party of government.
Brussels will welcome its eighth parliamentary group in just a few days, but the final composition will likely be negotiated until the last minute.
Lead candidate voted out by majority of party’s MEPs
Potential new nationalist party group could pave way for ID to cooperate with ECR.
Only the Austrian and Estonian delegations voted in favor of keeping AfD in the ID.
The timing of the arrest and release of information right before the EU elections was “not a coincidence,” MEP Maximilian Krah said.
Sources close to the AfD say scandal will be used to neuter Krah, who is viewed as a political liability.
Brussels elites are conflating a police investigation into a suspected Chinese spy with evidence-free allegations about conservative MEPs taking Russian money—just weeks before the European elections.
The European Conservative first reported coworkers’ suspicions about their Chinese colleague last April