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Politico (19 November 2024)

By Eddy Wax

An inevitable truth is emerging: The hard-right populists are here to stay and are calling the shots in EU politics.

Two recent major political decisions — the appointment of the new European Commission and a vote to gut a deforestation bill — have cemented the EU’s new power center squarely on the hard shoulder of the center-right European People’s Party — and allies to its right.

Some experts reckoned June’s European election results meant the bloc’s centrists would be able stave off a unified hard right in the European Parliament after the EPP continued its reign as the largest group in the legislature. But right-wing political forces such as the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) have proven to be the real powerbrokers in recent weeks.

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