Weber accused Garcia and the Socialists of \u201charming the European agenda.\u201d During her remarks, the S&D chief shot back: \u201cYou know who is responsible for the fact that this pro-European alliance \u2026 does not work in this Parliament?\u00a0It has a name and surname. It is called Manfred Weber.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exchange reflected a relationship under strain, as the EPP pushed deregulation, weaker green rules, and a crackdown on migration backed by far-right votes after the 2024 election shifted the Parliament to the right.<\/p>\n
Sidelined by that new math, the Socialists have increasingly felt alienated and have hardened their attacks on von der Leyen for embracing a right-wing deregulation agenda, and on Weber for empowering the far right in general.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only way for Iratxe to survive is to be more aggressive with EPP and with Manfred,\u201d said a former centrist lawmaker, who argued that Garc\u00eda is leaning on rhetoric to rally her base as concrete wins are in such short supply.<\/p>\n
For his part, Weber is unapologetic about sidelining traditional centrist allies, arguing that the end \u2014 tackling policy issues the far right has weaponized against the EU, notably migration and overregulation \u2014\u00a0justifies the means.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe could not be Commission president so he has been pushing to be a power broker from the Parliament, which means he needs to show he can push for whatever EPP wants, which includes using the far right,\u201d a second senior EPP MEP said of Weber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weber accused Garcia and the Socialists of \u201charming the European agenda.\u201d During her remarks, the S&D chief shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[17777,6215,6659,209098,33,2000,299,5187,1105,2440,3976,2199,30995,140114,11665,6657,5111,5338,48,31621,7338,79785,104,47982,21387,7162,1220,41048],"class_list":{"0":"post-692507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-bridges","9":"tag-cooperation","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-dacian-ciolos","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-far-right","17":"tag-giorgia-meloni","18":"tag-governance","19":"tag-italy","20":"tag-manfred-weber","21":"tag-manon-aubry","22":"tag-meps","23":"tag-migration","24":"tag-parliament","25":"tag-pedro-sanchez","26":"tag-rights","27":"tag-roberta-metsola","28":"tag-rule-of-law","29":"tag-seeds","30":"tag-spain","31":"tag-spanish-politics","32":"tag-state-of-the-union","33":"tag-teresa-ribera","34":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","35":"tag-valerie-hayer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115886016753026618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692507","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=692507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}