{"id":130116,"date":"2024-05-02T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/analysis-von-der-leyens-electoral-overture-to-meloni-could-pay-dividends-or-totally-backfire\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:30:57","slug":"analysis-von-der-leyens-electoral-overture-to-meloni-could-pay-dividends-or-totally-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/analysis-von-der-leyens-electoral-overture-to-meloni-could-pay-dividends-or-totally-backfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Von der Leyen\u2019s electoral overture to Meloni could pay dividends \u2013 or totally backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130116\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nUrsula von der Leyen has given her strongest indication yet that she would be willing to work with Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s hard-right party after the upcoming elections to the European Parliament. The overture, which had been previously hinted at, was offered for everyone to hear during the first debate between lead candidates on Monday evening. Von der Leyen, the sitting president of the European Commission and indisputable frontrunner for a second term, was quizzed on whether she would cooperate with the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group once the new Parliament is formed.<\/p>\n<p>ECR encompasses hard-right, Eurosceptic forces such as Fratelli d&#8217;Italia (Italy), Law and Justice (Poland), Vox (Spain), New Flemish Alliance (Belgium), Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic), Sweden Democrats (Sweden) and Finns Party (Finland). Reconqu\u00eate!, the movement of France&#8217;s controversial firebrand \u00c9ric Zemmour, joined earlier this year. &#8220;Where do you stand on ECR?&#8221; asked Bas Eickhout, the Greens representative. &#8220;It&#8217;s time that you are clear that you are not going to cooperate with ECR!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, it&#8217;s the European Parliament that has to find majorities,&#8221; von der Leyen answered. She then delivered an off-topic explanation of why the rule of law was important for her political family, the centre-right European People&#8217;s Party (EPP), which prompted the moderator to intervene and repeat Eickhout&#8217;s question. &#8220;It depends very much on how the composition of the Parliament is and who is in what group,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What?!&#8221; interjected Eickhout.<\/p>\n<p>Standing by her side, Nicolas Schmit, the socialist candidate and current Commissioner for jobs and social rights, quickly jumped into the fray to score much-needed points after an underwhelming performance. &#8220;I was a bit astonished by your response, saying it depends on the composition of the European Parliament,&#8221; Schmit told von der Leyen, who, technically speaking, is his boss.\u00a0&#8220;Values and rights cannot be divided according to some political arrangements. Either you can deal with the extreme right, because you need them, or you say clearly there is no deal possible because they do not respect the fundamental rights (that) our Commission has fought for,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange immediately became the did-she-really moment of the evening, as it put von der Leyen, a well-prepared, eloquent speaker, in a tight spot. The awkwardness was made only worse by way of comparison: the president, a few minutes before the ECR back-and-forth, had delivered a stinging rebuke against Anders Vistisen, the representative of the far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) party, which is saddled with allegations of Russian and Chinese influence and has repeatedly, and unabashedly, voiced talking points favourable to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should not be distracted from the real problem. And these are the proxies of Putin, who try to destroy the European Union from within through disinformation and polarisation. And we see an example here tonight,&#8221; von der Leyen said about Vistisen. &#8220;I want to be very clear. We will not allow that you will destroy the European Union! We are stronger than you and we will fight your interference with all means!&#8221;\u00a0 The grilling of von der Leyen could be reframed in blunter terms: How right is too right? This enigma has loomed over the incumbent for months, even before she officially announced her re-election bid in mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>An EPP party, Forza Italia, is in alliance with Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s Fratelli d&#8217;Italia (ECR) and Matteo Salvini&#8217;s Lega (ID) in what analysts have described as the most conservative government in Italy&#8217;s modern history. Fratelli d&#8217;Italia&#8217;s post-fascist inheritance has further reinforced the image of a regressive executive. But the ECR-ID-EPP collusion, initially received with dread in Brussels, has baffled critics as Meloni began showcasing a more pragmatic approach to EU politics while pushing forward her conservative agenda at home.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/04\/30\/analysis-von-der-leyens-electoral-overture-to-meloni-could-pay-dividends-or-totally-backfi\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/04\/30\/analysis-von-der-leyens-electoral-overture-to-meloni-could-pay-dividends-or-totally-backfi\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/analysis-von-der-leyens-electoral-overture-to-meloni-could-pay-dividends-or-totally-backfire\/\">Analysis: Von der Leyen\u2019s electoral overture to Meloni could pay dividends \u2013 or totally backfire<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,274,6014,3040],"class_list":["post-130116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu","tag-meloni","tag-von-der-leyen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}