During the debate in Maastricht, organized by POLITICO and Studio Europa Maastricht, she made it clear that she would be open to an agreement with the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group after the European elections in June, writes political.
Among these formations would be the Italian Brothers party, the Giorgia Meloni group, and the Law and Justice party from Poland, but von der Leyen declared that “it depends a lot on how the composition of the Parliament will look and who is in which group.”
An alliance between the ECR and von der Leyen’s European People’s Party could mean a significant shift to the right in EU policy-making – on topics from migration to climate legislation, women’s rights and defence, the source said.
However, such a deal could break up the coalition between von der Leyen’s group and the Socialists, but she must maintain this alliance to secure a new term at the helm of the Commission.
Who doesn’t want to team up with
right The Guardianvon der Leyen explicitly rejected a collaboration with the far-right Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament, which brings together the National Assembly in France – led by Marine Le Pen, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Danish People’s Party.
Addressing the representative of the far-right Danish People’s Party, Anders Vistisen, von der Leyen accused his AfD allies of being supporters of the Russian president, saying that their electoral program echoes “Putin’s lies and propaganda”. .
Von der Leyen has already set the conditions for working with certain groups in the ECR, saying that parties joining her coalition must be pro-NATO, pro-EU, pro-Ukraine and pro-rule of law.
von der Leyen’s centre-right European People’s Party is set to remain the biggest force in the European Parliament, followed by the Party of European Socialists, in an election where both centre-left parties and the Greens are expected to lose ground.
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