EPP boss: Weber doesn’t rule out joint votes with right-wing radicals within the EU Parliament | EUROtoday

The head of the conservative celebration group within the European Parliament EPP, Manfred Weber, doesn’t rule out joint votes with right-wing and right-wing extremist events.

“We will not let anyone stop us in order to stop illegal migration and secure our prosperity,” mentioned the CSU politician in an interview with the Funke media group printed on Saturday. “If the Social Democrats turn their backs on a Council, Commission or compromise text that has already been agreed upon – how should I react to that?” he mentioned, referring to the Supply Chain Act on the duty of firms to take motion in opposition to violations of human rights and environmental necessities by their suppliers.

Last November, the EPP was solely capable of weaken the availability chain regulation within the European Parliament with the votes of right-wing and right-wing extremist events. This was additionally met with criticism in Germany.

In mid-December, the European Parliament voted with a right-wing majority to make it simpler handy over accountability for asylum seekers to non-EU states. Germany and different EU nations ought to subsequently be allowed to deport migrants to nations with which they haven’t any connection. The asylum seekers ought to then apply for cover there, and never in Europe.

“The firewall is up. We know who our enemies are”

“The firewall is up,” Weber informed the paper. “We know who our enemies are.” The AfD is an anti-European celebration and the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin. “If we want to fight the populists, we have to deliver on the matter,” defined the CSU politician. It is essential to him to not have structured cooperation with right-wing radical events within the European Parliament. “I have named three basic pillars for organized cooperation with other parties: pro-Europe, pro-Ukraine and pro-rule of law,” emphasised Weber.

The Greens had demanded that Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) give his say in opposition to EU migration choices with a right-wing majority. “I expect the Chancellor and CDU leader to keep his word and that under him there will be no cooperation with right-wing extremist parties at the European level,” mentioned the chief of the Greens within the EU Parliament, Erik Marquardt.

The EPP group within the European Parliament, which additionally consists of the CDU and CSU, desires asylum coverage to be tightened as rapidly and intensely as doable and is prepared to work with “right-wing extremists, climate deniers and Putin lobbyists” to attain this.