Sources say EPP had baulked at use of term ‘far right’ in joint statement of parties in Europe
belongs refused to sign a letter condemning the far right and a spate of recent attacks on politicians in Germany, Belgium, Spain, Sweden and Ireland.
French MEP Valérie Hayer, head of Renew, said her group, which is backed by Emmanuel Macron, regretted that the EPP had not signed. “This puts their commitment to the common fight against destructive, far right forces into question. We urge the EPP to reconsider and to join this pro-European commitment,” she said.
The EPP reacted furiously to the letter row, saying the political parties who had signed the letter were playing a “nasty” political game, and that suggestions Von der Leyen would work with the far right was “bullshit” and “fake news”.she said would only work with parties that had “clear commitment to the rule of law, a clear commitment to Ukraine and against the crimes of the Kremlin and a clear commitment to our Europe.
The signatories of the letter warned that “once more the far right is attempting to bring back the darkest pages of our history challenging everything we built and poisoning our democracies”.
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