Europe's nationalist forces gained some ground at the European Parliament e...
BRUSSELS - Europe’s nationalist forces gained some ground at the European Parliament elections, but face an uphill task to unite behind common goals and lure other parties into disrupting the pro-EU majority’s policies.
The tough-talking deputy prime minister said on Monday he aimed to group 150 lawmakers and had discussed the matter with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in Britain and Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary. At least, though, one of the three groupings in which they are currently divided looks set to disappear.
“There is a risk that some sectors of the EPP will be drawn further to the right by the stronger presence of the far right,” said Kenneth Haar, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory, a campaign group.Orban, who with 52% of the Hungarian vote won 13 seats in the EU parliament, is seen as the most likely to quit the EPP, from which his party has already been suspended over concerns on rule of law in Hungary.
Nationalists from eastern Europe have for long opposed Italy’s calls to share asylum seekers among EU states.Poland’s PiS is wary of Salvini and Le Pen’s cozy relations with Russia. And on economic policies, eurosceptics have widely differing views, with Salvini’s calls for more flexibility on fiscal rules being met with coldness by his Austrian allies of the far-right FPO.
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