Former European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker has issued an urgent warning to his successor Ursula von der Leyen. In the quest for a majority to be re-elected as Commission President, she must not “slip into the right corner”.
“There cannot be a common future with many parties united in the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR),” Juncker told the Swiss “Tages-Anzeiger”. The Luxembourger emphasized: “A coalition with the Polish PiS or with Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz should not be established without being contradicted.” “I hope the firewall doesn’t really crumble,” Juncker said.
The EKR faction includes Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party, Fratelli d’Italia. Poland’s national conservative ruling party PiS is also one of them. The MPs of the Fidesz party from Hungary do not belong to the ECR faction.
Von der Leyen does not rule out cooperation
Von der Leyen recently did not rule out cooperation with the EKR for a possible second term after the European elections in June. “It very much depends on how the parliament is composed and who sits in which faction,” the former German Defense Minister said at the end of April.
Source: Krone
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