In the European Parliament, an incomplete victory for the far right

In Brussels, Monday 10 June was scheduled to be a day of celebration for the Matthias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian-funded think tank bringing the voice of radical and conservative rights to the European capital. The day after the election, which saw the far right assert itself within Hemicycle, the MCC organized a barbecue to celebrate these successes and take stock of the rise of this ultra-conservative family.

Rain and clouds in Brussels disrupted the feast and somewhat undermined the morale of this ever-growing family. Whereas in the previous term, nationalist and sovereigntist groups were hosted by various groups – European conservatives and reformists, including Poland's Law and Justice Party and Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia party; Identity and Democracy, which includes the National Rally Party; Those not registered, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party, have amassed about 160 MEPs, and the numbers have swelled to about 180 to 200 MEPs.

But despite these successes, the far right achieved a bitter victory, because it was unable to escape the margins of the Strasbourg Assembly. Its representatives will not participate in the potential majority.

“The evening was good, with the successes of the National Rally in France, the Freedom Party in Austria, Vox in Spain, Chiga in Portugal, and Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia party in Italy. Frank Foredi, Scientific Director of the MCC, explains immediately. We feel the spirit of the new era », the most conservative spirit of the age in Europe, judges the intellectual. However, the hardline conservative does not have a word for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the brimstone party led by Germany's Maximilian Krahe, which has become inaccessible after a series of controversies and investigations against some of its members. However, the German party succeeded in becoming the second political force in the country, and would send seventeen elected officials to Strasbourg.

“Very divided”

Besides the positive points, he nevertheless regrets the disappointments suffered by Jaroslaw Kaczynski's PiS in Poland, Robert Fico Smir's party in Slovakia, or Fidesz in Hungary. “These parties did not do their work properly. What about Flames Belang! » Despite very positive opinion polls, the Flemish far right has made very little progress. Even Frank Furidi thinks so “The reason is lost” In Northern Europe: “The parties in Denmark, Sweden or Finland are not mature enough and do not want to win. They do not fight for every vote!”

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