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DW News published Jun 9, 2024: Europe's center-right claims EU election victory even as far-right surges.
The center-right European People's Party (EPP) is set to remain the biggest grouping in the European Parliament after voters went to the polls across Europe.
Ursula von der Leyen, the lead candidate for the EPP, as well as the European Commission President, said that the party had won the elections.
"No majority can be formed without the EPP and together ... we will build a bastion against the extremes from the left and from the right," she declared.
Von der Leyen is seeking a second five-year term as president of the European Commission, the powerful EU executive arm.
Preliminary election results also showed that far-right, nationalist parties had made the biggest gains in the polls.
Reuters published June 9, 2024: EU states vote in European Parliament election. Voters in 21 EU countries including France and Germany voted in an election for the European Parliament that is expected to shift the assembly to the right and boost the numbers of euro-skeptic nationalists.
Notice the paper ballots Europe uses for their important elections? Because they know what's up. (emphasis mine)
BRUSSELS - The rise of euro-sceptic nationalist parties in the European election is likely to complicate Ursula von der Leyen's bid to get a second term as president of the powerful European Commission, though she remains the front-runner for the job.
To secure another five years as boss of the EU's executive arm, von der Leyen needs a "qualified majority" of the 27 European Union leaders and also a majority in the 720-seat European Parliament.
In 2019 she barely scraped through that vote with just nine votes more than needed, despite her centre-right European People's Party (EPP) being the biggest grouping in the legislature. She also had the backing of the second biggest, the Socialists, and the liberals, the third biggest.
The EPP remains the biggest group in parliament and first projections of seats showed that if the centre-left, liberals and Greens all vote for her, she would have more than the required majority of 361 votes.
But nationalist and euro-sceptic political groups as well as the far-right German AfD would jointly gain 22 deputies to a total of 149. Their gains could be much bigger, depending on how many of the 102 now non-affiliated members decide to formally join one of the euro-sceptic parliamentary groups.
This would leave much less room for manoeuvre for von der Leyen, especially that it is not clear how many deputies from her potential coalition might not vote for her even if their party leaders give their support.
In 2019, some 100 MEPs from the EPP, centre-left and liberals' coalition did not vote for von der Leyen but she got the votes she needed from right-wing Polish deputies. These are unlikely to support her now especially since she helped push through the EU's Green Deal and was tough on rule-of-law issues.
To assure support in parliament, von der Leyen has been signalling readiness to cooperate on important issues with the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) which groups euro-sceptic parties like Brothers of Italy, Spain's Vox and Poland's Law and Justice.
Diplomats say this could shift EU policymaking more to the right at the proposal stage, since the draft legislation is prepared by the Commission.
But flirting with the ECR puts von der Leyen at risk of losing her usual allies because the Socialists, liberals and Greens have all said they would not support her if she cooperates with the right.
EU LEADERS
Things may be a bit easier with European leaders, who have to nominate her for the job before parliament votes. Though only 13 of the 27 leaders belong to the EPP, they will take into consideration the fact it remains the biggest group.
Von der Leyen is also seen by most as having done a good job over the last five years, especially with delivering vaccines for the EU early in the pandemic and with uniting the EU in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The qualified majority she needs means 15 of the 27 EU leaders, from countries that together represent 65% of the EU's population, must back her nomination.
The 13 EPP-ruled countries, among which Poland is the biggest, together represent only 26% of the EU's citizens.
In practice, this means von der Leyen also needs the vote of the liberal French President Emmanuel Macron as well as the Socialist German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, though not necessarily the nationalist Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni.
But French support is not guaranteed. Macron has been touting former Italian Prime Minister and ECB head Mario Draghi as a person who should "play a role" in the several top EU jobs that have to be decided this year.
EU diplomats point out Draghi is not linked to any party and therefore lacks a broader political base. Each of the EU's big political families - the EPP, the Socialists, Liberals, Greens, the Left, the right-wing ECR and far-right ID, all have their candidates for the top European Commission job.
Adding to the complexity, the top Commission job will be part of a package of senior EU posts decided this year, with political groups trading their support not only for policy promises but also key positions for their representatives.
[source: Government of Netherlands]
The 30 EEA countries
EEA stands for European Economic Area. The EEA aims to strengthen trade and economic relations between each of the EEA countries. There are 30 EEA countries:
The 27 EU Member States
Iceland
Liechtenstein
Norway
The 4 EFTA countries
EFTA stands for European Free Trade Association. It is a regional trade organisation and a free trade area between each of the Member States. It has 4 Member States:
Iceland
Liechtenstein
Norway
Switzerland
The 27 Schengen Area countries
In the Schengen Area there are no passport or border controls at the borders within the area. The Schengen Area is made up of 23 of the 27 EU Member States plus the 4 countries that form the EFTA:
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland.
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland and Romania are EU Member States but are not part of the Schengen Area.
Partial members of the Schengen area
Bulgaria
Romania
As of 31 March 2024 air and sea border controls between the Schengen member states and Bulgaria and Romania will be lifted, but land border checks will remain in place.
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We'll present this month a legislative proposal for a Digital Green Pass. The aim is to provide:
•Proof that a person has been vaccinated •Results of tests for those who couldn’t get a vaccine yet •Info on COVID19 recovery
It will respect data protection, security & privacy
Ursula von der Leyen's Commission today in Brussel asked member states to give her extraordinary powers to impose a mandatory 15% gas rationing in EU countries. EU politicians are our real enemies. pic.twitter.com/4yqY2vAK61
Shortly after Austria became first country to make COVID vaccines compulsory, EU chief Ursula von Der Leyen calls for dispensing with the Nuremberg Code and making vaccination mandatory across Europe.
Ursula von der Leyen has urged the EU to consider mandatory Covid jabs.
But former NHS Surgeon Dr Tony Hinton warns "A lot of people in Europe seem to have forgotten their history and what happens when you take a group of people and blame them."@JuliaHB1 | @TonyHinton2016pic.twitter.com/POM8fVoXS5
Ursula Von Der Leyen pushes Totalitarian Digital IDs so Globalist govts can control every aspect of our lives…
“Launching this year and building on vaccine passports technology, every #EU citizen and resident in the Union will be able to use a personal digital identity wallet." pic.twitter.com/s7GEafeDtY
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