EU’s center-right under pressure to expel Berlusconi over support for Italy’s Meloni Center-right group leader Manfred Weber is urged to try to stop the far-right Brothers of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni, taking over in Rome.
- But a group of German MEPs has written to Manfred Weber, whose center-right European People’s Party (EPP) holds the most seats in the European Parliament, calling for Forza Italia to be ejected from the EPP unless Berlusconi drops his support for Meloni.
- Those who make pacts with the extreme right help them gain power.”
- Fundamental EU values on which the Continent’s peace and democracy rely should not be sacrificed simply to gain power, the letter tells Weber.
- How would Mr Freund’s, Ms Barley’s and Mr Körner’s constituents respond if an elected MEP from another country questioned their democratic choice?”
- Raffaele Fitto, an Italian MEP from the Brothers of Italy, said: “We suggest to our colleague García Perez to seriously question herself on the real and deep reasons behind the clear electoral defeat of the left in Italy.”
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