“I labored nicely along with her” –

Two weeks earlier than the vote, the difficulty of the alliance with the precise is on the middle of the talk between the candidates. Within the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels, the 5 candidates for the presidency of the European Fee confronted one another in Eurovision: the Austrian Walter Baier for the European Left, the Italian Sandro Gozi for Renew Europe Now, the German outgoing President of the Fee Ursula von der Leyen for the European Folks’s Social gathering, the German Terry Reintke for the European Greens and the Luxembourg Nicolas Schmit for the Social gathering of European Socialists. Absent had been the representatives of Identification and Democracy and of the Conservatives and Reformists, who didn’t specific their spitzenkandidat as a result of they don’t acknowledge the system of nominating a typical European candidate for the management of the EU Govt, a alternative which in keeping with the Treaties is as much as the Heads of State and of presidency gathered within the European Council. Throughout the debate, the tone turned heated over the doable opening aired by the Folks’s Social gathering, destined to be confirmed first by power, to some events to their proper. The reference is to Fratelli d’Italia. «I labored very nicely with Giorgia Meloni on the European Council», says von der Leyen, specifying that a lot will rely on the alternatives and actions that MEPs will undertake within the new Parliament. «We are going to see who would be the pro-Europe – and you’re – the anti-Putin – and you’re – i.e. pro-rule of legislation. Then we can work collectively”, explains the German chief, specifying that it’s not a query of collaborating with your entire Ecr group. In brief, it’s a under no circumstances hidden wink that the Folks’s Social gathering candidate makes to the Italian Prime Minister, from whom nevertheless she distances herself on LGBTIQ rights: “I’ve a very completely different method”, she says. You point out Rassemblement Nationwide in France, AfD in Germany or Konfederacja in Poland, which «have one factor in frequent: they’re pals of Putin and wish to destroy our EU. We is not going to permit it.”

For the socialist candidate, Nicolas Schmit, nevertheless, the purple line contains your entire Id and Ecr teams. «We’re able to collaborate with all democratic forces however I don’t imagine that Ecr and ID are democratic forces for various areas. Even in Italy we are actually witnessing assaults towards girls, towards the media. Due to this fact they don’t correspond to elementary values”, remarked the Luxembourger, scary the ire of the Brothers of Italy. The message coming from the liberals of Renew Europe is equally clear. «We are saying ‘no, no, no to forming alliances with the intense proper. I’ll by no means assist an alliance with those that query LGBTQ rights, our method to migration, respect for the Structure, the rule of legislation. No to alliances with the intense proper ECR and ID”, thundered the centrist candidate, Sandro Gozi, operating for reconfirmation on the French lists of the Macronian Renaissance get together. «All roads result in Rome however the highway that Ursula von der Leyen is not going to take very far, the nearer it will get to Giorgia Meloni, Fratelli d’Italia and Ecr, the additional away it will get from us. That is clear”, underlined the previous Italian undersecretary of the Renzi and Gentiloni governments. Even for Gozi, von der Leyen’s opening to Fratelli d’Italia “doesn’t arise, as a result of, like Vox and Zemmour, it’s not a pro-European power: they do not wish to reform the treaties, they do not wish to enhance the European funds”. Little modifications if the ID group is attempting to wash up. At this time the group, on the urging of the League and Rassemblement Nationwide, expelled Different für Deutschland, specifying that the group “now not desires to be related to the incidents involving Maximilian Krah, chief of the AfD for the European elections”. An “alarm sign” that was “activated too late”, feedback EPP president Manfred Weber.