Published: July 28th, 2024,
Last updated: September 3rd, 2024

The EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens and Left have succeeded in excluding the radical right-wing and anti-EU MEPs when the European Parliament and its committees were constituted. The firewall has held. The radical right-wing Patriots for Europe group, into which the ID Group has merged and which is led by Jordan Bardella from the Rassemblement National, would have had a mathematical claim. However, it came away empty-handed when it came to filling the posts in the parliamentary bureau and the committee chairs.