There are growing voices in Brussels and in Italy who want her party Georgia Melon in the ranks of the European People’s Party. Center-right Forza Italia MEP Salvatore De Meo told the Euractive that such a move would strengthen Italy’s influence in the next European Parliament. The movements in question can only be characterized as random as the ELPin whose ranks is also SWis making a shift to the extreme right by managing some key issues such as immigration.
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“The former leader of “Forza Italia”, Silvio Berlusconi but also the current leader Antonio Tajani they had thought about it in the past and thought that a path could be found to join the EPP family,” De Meo added.
At the same time, he noted that the increase in the number of Italian MEPs within the EPP could give the country the opportunity to express its positions and strategy more forcefully.
However, many center-right figures do not seem comfortable with the prospect of an immediate opening to her party. Melon. “It is likely that the EPP wishes to test the reactions through a more “loose” cooperation within the next four years”, concludes Euractiv.
All this while the president of the EPP, Manfred Webersaid on Monday that he is open to working with Georgia Meloni who “fits all the requirements as a pro-European, supporter of the Rule of Law, the role of NATO, support for Ukraine.”
On the other hand, the vice president of the People’s Party, Siegfried Muresanresponded that Meloni’s party “has a long way to go to emerge as a strong and serious pro-EU party”.
The Socialists they see this prospect as “surprising”. “I can understand several developments as part of the implementation of “realpolitik”, but I cannot imagine how the EPP could accept into its family a party leader who finds it difficult to be characterized as anti-fascist”, said the PES secretary, Giacomo Filipek.
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