Positions in the European Parliament: th • Table.Briefings

Nicola Procaccini, co-leader of the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), wants to attract more members to the group and become the third-strongest force in Parliament.

In the previous legislative term, there was a cordon sanitaire that prevented far-right parties from obtaining committee chair positions and other posts in the European Parliament. Now the question arises whether this barrier will also apply to the conservative ECR group if they team up with Le Pen’s Rassemblement National.

Nicola Procaccini, co-chair of the ECR group, aims to gain more members in the political marketplace. His goal is to make ECR the third-largest group, surpassing the Renew group, which has 79 members. „We do not want to leave the ECR,“ says the representative from the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia. They have no intention of abandoning the „conservative brand„, shared with the British Tories, the Republicans in the USA, and Likud in Israel.

Positions in the European Parliament: the future of the cordon sanitaire

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