Hard right is set to surge in this week’s European Union elections. Center set to tilt to right, too
Associated PressBRUSSELS — It seemed like a throwaway line by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, yet it encapsulated what is at stake for many in this week’s European Union parliamentary elections — What to do with the hard right? During an election debate, von der Leyen declared that Meloni checked all the necessary boxes, the last of which was “pro-rule of law.” She immediately added, however, “if this holds.” Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrive for a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, on March 22, 2024. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen waves, as European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, right, and Manfred Weber, head of the Group of the European People’s Party, left, applaud at the end of the EPP Congress in Bucharest, Romania, on March 7, 2024. Von der Leyen’s European People’s Party, a largely Christian Democrat group, is the legislature’s biggest and bound to be the coalition kingmaker after the elections.
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