She may have been considered a triumphant of European elections on June 9but things took a different turn to Georgia Meloniwho in any case is dissatisfied with the bargains and agreements for top positions in the EU.
In fact, Politico reports that the Italian prime minister doesn’t answer other leaders’ phones.
As if that weren’t enough, according to your report PoliticalPoland’s Nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) is considering abandoning its alliance with Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy in the European Parliament and is in talks with right-wing populist parties to form a new group.
The other parties include the Hungarian prime minister’s Fidesz Viktor Orbánthe Action of Dissatisfied Citizens in the Czech Republic by Andrej Babis and the Slovenian Democratic Party by Janš Janša.
“It is obvious that we could be united in one geographic platform and not on an ideological platform. I am less and less interested in all these ideological pieces of the puzzle,” former Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki told POLITICO at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday. Morawiecki added that he is in contact with representatives of other delegations.
Big blow
ECR is now the third largest group in Parliament, overtaking Renew, which collapsed because of (and) Macron. PiS (20 MEPs) and Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (24) are the two largest national parties within the Eurogroup.
Internal negotiations at the ECR between the Polish and Italian delegations are slightly tense after the ECR canceled a meeting on Wednesday and postponed it to July 3, just one day before the informal deadline for political group registrations.
“We are in negotiations with the ECR and this is the important factor that will decide our future,” Morawiecki said. Asked if this was simply a negotiating tactic to increase the price of staying in the ECR, he said: “No, I wouldn’t say that.”
Was a name found?
The new group could be called CEE (Central-Eastern Europe), representing Central-Eastern Europe, or even the Three Seas Group, although the former Polish prime minister seemed hesitant about the latter.
Smer (ss Slovak Social Democracy) is not part of the negotiations. Smer intends to return to the Socialists and Democrats group, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said on Wednesday.
Babis, who recently left Renew, said this week that he was interested in forming a new group that would be against immigration and the Green Dealbut gave no further details about potential members, according to Czech media.
One of Jansa’s MEPs described as “fake news” that his party was considering leaving the center-right European People’s Party.
Meloni criticized the main centrist groups for leading behind-the-scenes negotiations to the most important positions in the EU without their participation. With a weakened ECR, your claims may carry less weight.