“Some positions cannot be bridged but many can,” Metsola concluded, adding that the centrist forces have found agreement on the likes of defense funding and agriculture policy but struggled to do so on migration and green simplification. “It’s not about majority; if anything, it’s about pragmatism,” she said. For decades, the main centrist forces have […]
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“Some positions cannot be bridged but many can,” Metsola concluded, adding that the centrist forces have found agreement on the likes of defense funding and agriculture policy but struggled to do so on migration and green simplification.
“It’s not about majority; if anything, it’s about pragmatism,” she said.
For decades, the main centrist forces have found ways to work together and exclude the far right. However, groups on the right enjoyed great success in the 2024 EU election, and working with those groups is becoming less taboo.
Metsola said she had asked leaders for “their help” to make sure that MEPs “mirror the agenda” of the countries they represent, especially as some of the Socialist MEPs who voted down the agreement are part of governments pushing for the simplification package, such as the Germans, Austrians and Poles.
There will likely be a lot more simplification proposals for the Parliament to vote on.
In a letter dated Oct. 20, obtained by POLITICO, the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and others called for “a constant stream” of simplification proposals from the European Commission.
