Hungary to add brand new far-right task force to EU Parliament

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Hungary’s Viktor Orban and the poll-topping far-right parties of Austria and the Czech Republic have announced plans to approach a new bloc in the EU Parliament, calling for ending support for Ukraine and rapprochement talks with Russia. It has been promised to focus on.

“Historians will decide in a few years how important this day was – we think this is the day when changes in European policy will begin,” Orbán said at a news conference in Vienna on Sunday.

“The Brussels elite are protesting. They do not accept the decision of the Europeans (voters). They do not want change, they want to maintain the status quo. this is unacceptable. That is why this present joint group and platform is being created,” he said.

The announcement comes as political factions negotiate their way into their final days following EU Parliament elections in June, during which far-right parties made gains across the continent.

Patriots for Europe, as the proposed new coalition has dubbed itself, would like to be joined by MEPs from at least four different EU member states by Thursday to become a legitimate bloc, thereby bargaining for additional investment, The roles of power and parliamentary leadership will open up.

Its creation programs – Austria’s Self-Governing Birthday Party (FPO), the Czech Republic’s ANO, which recently dropped out of the pro bono renewal task force, and Hungary’s Fidesz – already have 26 MEPs between them. A group requires a minimum of 23 MPs from seven international locations to function.

“From this early indication, all political forces who wish to do so and who wish to join our political and positive reform efforts are very welcome. And from what I’ve heard in the last few days, there will be more of them,” said FPO chief Herbert Kickl.

The FPÖ – which has doubled its EU parliamentary seats and is not on track to win Austrian nationwide elections in September – is piling pressure behind the coalition, which Kickl said would lead to radical exchanges in Brussels. To provide was “carrier rocket”. ,

The announcement marks a fair split in Europe between the FPÖ, led by Marine Le Pen, and France’s Rassemblement Nationwide. In the last Parliament, both sat in the ID and Liberty (ID) team.

The RN is expected to emerge as France’s main party in the first round of voting in the country’s election on Sunday. In Europe, the RN’s efforts to balance its views while garnering votes domestically have gradually led to a rift with more radical parties.

Le Pen forced the Affiliation for Germany (AfD) party to expel its top election candidate from ID and said that not all Nazi SS squads were criminals. Boycott used to be opposed through FPO.

Attitudes against Russia have emerged as a very powerful divisive layout, with ultraconservative phenomena such as Poland’s Brothers for Regulation and Justice (PiS) and Giorgia Meloni’s Italy’s Brothers on Ukraine staunchly opposed to any ties with Moscow.

However, the PiS party has not ruled out joining the new team. “We are monitoring the developments,” an official said.

Kickl called for a more clear timetable against Europe’s “radical centrism”, saying, “We will not stand idly by and watch a European superstate develop in which member states’ parliaments are reduced to a kind of folklore department. Has gone.” His initial comments also included various “peace” concerns with Russia.

The FPEO has a long history of common family members with President Vladimir Putin, and has been harshly critical of Ukraine ever since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in 2022.

Along with Orbán and Kikal, ANO’s Andrzej Babis signed a “patriotic manifesto”, which he sent to other far-right parties in Europe as a building text for the proposed new faction.

“We are here together because we are united by three main priorities that will define our policies in the EU. Protecting sovereignty, fighting against illegal migration and amending the Green Deal (the plan to tackle climate change),” Babis said.

A tough potential member could be Germany’s AfD, which has 14 MEPs.

However, according to AfD legitimate, Hungary’s Fidesz is opposed to working together with the German Birthday Party. Principal Alice Weidel advised Financial Events that she would keep her choices recognizable and would not join a group just to become a member.

Despite their lead in the seat selection, far-right parties do not appear to be on track to show much strength at the EU meeting as they are splitting into more groups than in the former parliament. Simon Hicks, a professor of politics at the EU College Institute, said the building would create the possibility that the most important workforce, the centre-right EU Society’s birthday celebration, would pivot against the center and centre-left.

“We are headed for the most fractured Parliament ever. “But the fragmentation of the far right will strengthen the centrist coalition, because the EPP will have nowhere else to go.”