{"id":15515,"date":"2026-04-08T01:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/15515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:39:38","slug":"right-wing-mep-says-he-started-group-chat-with-eu-conservatives-that-angered-merz-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/15515\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-wing MEP says he started group chat with EU conservatives that angered Merz \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weimers told POLITICO that \u201call four groups had a part in these negotiations\u201d, adding that \u201cI was anticipating that this would be regarded as a positive example of centre-right cooperation that would lead to smooth trilogues [meetings between Commission, Council and Parliament], because that\u2019s the actual outcome of all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cthe left in Berlin\u201d had used it \u201cas a chance to put pressure on Friedrich Merz\u201d and that the EPP \u201cknows very well that this firewall produces inferior policy. In this case, they knew the S&amp;D would never give them votes for returns, so they had to work with us and others to get real change on migration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want more group chats, I think it\u2019s needed,\u201d Weimers said.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, the center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU\u2019s first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/most-eu-firms-exempted-from-green-reporting-under-proposed-omnibus-bill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">omnibus simplification package<\/a>, exempting more companies from green reporting rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens\u2019 negotiator on the migration returns bill, M\u00e9lissa Camara, said the revelations show why EU lawmakers should \u201ccome to their senses and reverse\u201d Parliament\u2019s mandate. Left-wing groups have challenged the Parliament\u2019s position in upcoming negotiations with the Council, which will be up for a vote in next week\u2019s plenary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese leaks are absolutely shocking but not surprising,\u201d as amendments that the EPP and far-right groups proposed in Parliament talks \u201cwere going in the same direction,\u201d Camara said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s \u201cfurther evidence of the end of the cordon sanitaire,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weimers told POLITICO that \u201call four groups had a part in these negotiations\u201d, adding that \u201cI was anticipating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[124],"tags":[8055,8615,1429,233,5012,249,8107,1431],"class_list":["post-15515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-friedrich-merz","tag-brussels-bubble","tag-charlie-weimers","tag-far-right","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-german-politics","tag-germany","tag-manfred-weber","tag-migration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116366538321921200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}