In the EU, there is a visible trend of the strengthening of right-wing political groups, so the current leadership in Brussels, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, is increasingly trying to establish closer relations with them in order to remain in power even after the upcoming elections for the European Parliament.
The right, which calls itself the sovereignist party, is in power in Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, the Netherlands…
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The trends in the EU, in the midst of the war in Ukraine and the economic crisis, are more than clear: the right is unstoppably getting stronger and will have to be counted on throughout the continent, including during the future convocation of the European Parliament, notes “Geopolitika”.
Ursula von der Leyen is trying to get closer to those parties, so she started to reconcile with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Before the Italian elections, she threatened Meloni that she “will not accept flirting with Italian fascism” and that in the event of Meloni’s victory, Italy may be left without financial resources from EU funds.
That statement at the time provoked the anger of the Italian public and a barrage of criticism for the impermissible interference in the electoral right of the Italian people.
Now Ursula von der Leyen came on an official visit to Italy, so she followed the grandiose Russian opera “Boris Godunov” by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky with Meloni in the famous “Scala” in Milan.
As if in the EU itself in 2022, the expulsion of Russian artists, living and dead, from the repertoire of operas, theaters, cinemas, and even Russian books did not continue.
But the European elections and poor ratings are forcing Ursula von der Leyen to forget all that and try to build bridges to the right-wing sovereigntists, Srna writes.
