
Patriotic Bloc and Common Sense Score Victory in EP with New Returns Regulation
The centre-right EPP voting with the right-wing parties to allow the externalisation of returns marks a political turning point in the EU.

The centre-right EPP voting with the right-wing parties to allow the externalisation of returns marks a political turning point in the EU.

Conservative and sovereignist leaders from across Europe gathered in Budapest to call for a shift away from EU centralisation and towards national sovereignty.

With CPAC Hungary set for Saturday and the Patriots’ Grand Assembly in Budapest on Monday, the patriotic bloc is presenting itself as one of the main European centres of political gravity.

The continuity at the top of the Commission only highlights the EU’s inability to conclude the increasingly contested Mercosur trade agreement.

Pressure from the agricultural sector and the backing of conservative forces have managed, for now, to halt a key deal for Brussels.

The new coalition government has won a confidence vote, paving the way for changes to the Czech Republic’s relationship with the EU.

Benjamin Netanyahu said the world needs more leaders like the Hungarian prime minister, while Javier Milei said Viktor Orbán has made Hungary a bastion of the Western world in a Europe that is being engulfed by darkness.

Javier Milei called the midterm elections a “turning point” for the country.

Leftist MEPs demanded that Hungary be stripped of its voting rights and urged the von der Leyen commission to personally attend this month’s illegal Pride March in Budapest.

“We want to be the largest group, and we want to overthrow Brussels. That is the goal, and it’s possible.”