Premier Giorgia Meloni said Monday
that next month's European elections may usher in a new ruling
majority in the EU with respect to the grand coalition between
the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and the
Socialists and Democrats (S&D) that has ruled the EU
institutions in recent years.
"Today there is room to build a different majority in the
European Parliament, and for different policies," Meloni, the
leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, told Rai
radio.
She added that "if things should not go like this, I have
already shown that, with common sense, Italy can lead the way on
many policies".
The potential for agreements between the various European
political groups is a hot topic ahead of next month's EU
elections.
At the EU level, FdI is part of the European Conservatives and
Reformists (ECR) group, which Meloni is president of
Last week Meloni said she had several things in common with
Marine Le Pen, the parliamentary party leader of France's
right-wing National Rally (RN) group.
Le Pen's RN is part of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group
that Italy's League party, one of the coalition partners in
Meloni's government, belongs to.
Deputy Premier, Foreign Minister and centre-right Forza Italia
(FI) leader Antonio Tajani, a member of the EPP of European
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, has said he sees a
possible post-election alliance with the ECR but not with ID,
describing Le Pen as extremist.
ID has just expelled Alternative for Germany (AfD) after an AfD
member said that not all the SS were bad.
ID includes Geert Wilders' Dutch Freedom Party and the Austrian
Freedom Party while the ECR includes Erik Zemmour of France's
Reconquest, Vox of Spain and the Law and Justice party of
Poland.
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