European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave the clearest signal yet that she is willing to cooperate with the European Conservatives and Reformists group, which contains hard-right MEPs from the likes of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy and Poland’s Law & Justice.
Speaking at the Maastricht Debate, organized by POLITICO and Studio Europa Maastricht, von der Leyen made it clear she would not work with the far-right Identity and Democracy group.
Asked by the Greens’ Bas Eickhout if that approach extended to the ECR, von der Leyen said — after skirting the topic for almost a minute — “It depends very much on how the composition of the Parliament is, and who is in what group.”
Earlier this year, the Commission president hinted she would be open, after the European election in June, to working with some politicians in the ECR who are more right-wing than her own center-right European People’s Party — albeit on her terms.
Von der Leyen is gunning for a second five-year term steering the European Union’s powerful executive arm. To get there, however, she will need the approval of a majority of MEPs in the European Parliament, which is expected to shift to the right.
Von der Leyen opens door to hard-right tie-up
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