Breaking with decades of political protocol, the move signed the death warrant of the so-called cordon sanitaire, the informal pact between Europe\u2019s centrist forces \u2014 the EPP, the Socialists and Democrats, the liberals of Renew, and the Greens \u2014 to keep the far right out of decision-making.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It ushers in a different era for the Parliament, in which political pragmatism triumphs over principle, and the EPP works with whichever side of the aisle is necessary to get the job done.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the far right, becoming a bona fide power player is a major success following months of increasing influence in different files.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe overall interest has won, but it is also the fruit of our ever-increasing presence \u2026 here concretely in the hemicycle,\u201d far-right Patriots chair Jordan Bardella, of France\u2019s National Rally, told POLITICO after the vote. The Patriots\u2019 lead negotiator on the file, Pascale Piera, called it a\u00a0\u201chistoric day\u201d\u00a0as they\u00a0“have broken the Ursula von der Leyen majority.”<\/p>\n
But for the liberals, center left and Greens, it\u2019s the nail in the coffin of trust between the four centrist groups.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a shitty sign for European majorities, it is a shitty sign for Europe, it is shitty for the fight against climate change and child labor protection \u2026 to me this is a very, very bad signal for the cooperation for the next four years,\u201d co-chair of the Greens group Terry Reintke told POLITICO after the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking with decades of political protocol, the move signed the death warrant of the so-called cordon sanitaire, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1105,84488,30995,809,14921,3695,180615,11587,1220,41048],"class_list":{"0":"post-568974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-far-right","12":"tag-iratxe-garcia-perez","13":"tag-manfred-weber","14":"tag-negotiations","15":"tag-omnibus","16":"tag-sustainability","17":"tag-terry-reintke","18":"tag-transparency","19":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","20":"tag-valerie-hayer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115545900642941427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}