For this debate, we’re flanked by Richard Schenk, researcher on the Hungarian Think Tank McC Brussels, Lena Schilling, Austrian member of the European Parliament by the Verdi and Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Dutch member of the European Parliament of the Liberal Group renewed in Europe. Méabh Mc Mahon of Euronews brings us updates from Valencia.
The European People’s Party, which has greater than a dozen heads of state and authorities within the Council, has arrived first within the European elections final 12 months. Retained in Valencia this week, the occasion celebrated its new energy after the latest electoral victories, particularly in Germany. The delegates of the EPP Congress hope that the incoming German chancellor will handle the European conservatives and the way forward for the EU. After a handy guide a rough election in February, his occasion turned the strongest political power once more, in view of the far proper AFD occasion.
The electoral outcome left Merz with two choices: a coalition with the AFD or with the Social Democrats. Since he had excluded any type of cooperation with the far proper, he collaborated with the outgoing chancellor occasion Olaf Scholz. In Berlin, Merz has simply designed a brand new big expenditure energy for Germany who even had the assist of the Greens. Everyone didn’t prefer to his occasion. Now he desires to be extra assertive in Brussels and resist Donald Trump. Okay for Europe?
The panel additionally mentioned the circumstances during which the EPP met in Valencia. The nice second within the occasion’s solar was in some way obscured by monumental public protests. A deliberate reminder of the administration of the regional authorities conservative of the catastrophic floods of October. The accusation: the administration didn’t give the inhabitants an ample warning of the upcoming catastrophe.
Let Valencia host the EPP congress, was it a sensible factor to do in retrospective? Ursula von der Leyen is able to communicate with the representatives of the victims in Brussels on May 13 – Is this the proper factor to do?
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