{"id":94394,"date":"2026-05-29T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/94394\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:27:11","slug":"brussels-watchdog-reviews-afds-eu-party-over-values-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/94394\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels watchdog reviews AfD&#8217;s EU party over values concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The watchdog overseeing European political parties has found indications that Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN), a far-right party alliance co-founded by the Alternative for Germany (AfD), may have violated the EU&#8217;s fundamental values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European Commission has received a letter from the authority setting out the available facts, a commission spokesman confirmed to dpa. The European Parliament and EU member states also received the document.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ESN could lose its status as an EU-level political party, along with access to EU funding, if a formal review finds clear and serious violations.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The commission spokesman said the letter was currently being examined carefully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European Parliament, EU member states or the European Commission can decide whether to request a formal investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The transmission of the information does not amount to a decision and does not indicate the outcome of any possible review procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The watchdog overseeing European political parties has found indications that Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN), a far-right party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,18619,41570,2610,49232,190,49231,6924],"class_list":["post-94394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-esn","tag-eu-member-states","tag-european-commission","tag-fundamental-values","tag-germany","tag-party-conference","tag-the-european-parliament"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116655505099698601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}