A new far-right parliamentary group, allegedly named "The Sovereignists," is being formed in the European Parliament, led by Germany's AfD and aiming to gather various nationalist parties across Europe, according to multiple sources and media reports.
While talks about the two far-right forces in the European Parliament, the ECR and the ID, merging into a supergroup have surfaced in recent months, the two groups are miles apart on many of the most salient issues.
The top national delegations will reshape the Parliament's balance of powers while feeding new priorities into the legislative work, and with voting set to start on Thursday (6 June), Europe Elects' final projections for Euractiv lay out what could lie ahead.
A more right-wing European Parliament could mean fewer regulatory initiatives in the area of tech, a weakened push for market integration, but more support for defence tech, according to party manifestos and an interview with an expert.
Though Marine Le Pen has invited Giorgia Meloni to form a grand EU far-right group, differences between right-wing nationalist parties make it unlikely, vice-president of Romania’s far-right AUR party Adrian Axinia told Euractiv, who also calls for a “strong shepherd” to unify Europe’s sovereigntist forces.
The European Socialists, Greens, and Liberals have all shut the door to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s reelection if she decides to cooperate with the hard-right ECR party after June’s EU elections.
After delays, the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) party approved their manifesto for June's EU elections on Tuesday (23 April), but failed to agree on a Spitzenkandidat amid emerging internal splits.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, members of the right-wing ‘national-conservative’ camp, are planning a reshuffle of powers in the European Parliament in an attempt to gain enough leverage in the next term.
The Reconquête! party of French far-right leader Eric Zemmour has joined the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament in a bid to strengthen the right-wing camp after the EU elections in June.
With the European election rapidly approaching, the far-right Identity & Democracy (ID) group has opened their arms for Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party to join the group, its Vice-President Gunnar Beck told Euractiv in an interview.
Young conservatives came together in Brussels to talk about how they see the future of Europe, in response to the Conference on the Future of Europe, the EU democracy experiment promoted by the institutions, where randomly selected citizens had a say in EU policymaking.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is pressing the department responsible for rubber-stamping the deadlocked third tranche of the post-COVID recovery fund to Italy, whose leadership will be pivotal to her re-election, EURACTIV has learned from several sources.
