{"id":369518,"date":"2024-06-12T19:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/06\/12\/4-nuovi-deputati-sono-77-i-seggi-per-ecr\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T09:23:41","slug":"conservatives-welcome-4-new-meps-77-seats-for-the-ecr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/12\/conservatives-welcome-4-new-meps-77-seats-for-the-ecr\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives welcome 4 new MEPs, 77 seats for the ECR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –The Group of European Conservatives (ECR) is renewed and enlarged<\/strong>. To the 73 MEPs rewarded\u00a0at the polls in last weekend’s European elections<\/a>, four more are added<\/strong> from\u00a0the new parties<\/a>\u00a0that, for the first time, bring a representative to Brussels. The number of seats <\/strong>for the group, where Fratelli d’Italia, the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, sits,\u00a0\u00a0therefore rises to 77.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the newcomers is\u00a0Croatian Stjepo Bartulica<\/strong> of Patriotic Movement (DP), a formation that also looked to the ID sovereignty group for possible alliances. A seat thus snatched from right-wing competition. Also joining the European conservatives is the\u00a0Cypriot, Geadi Geadis,<\/strong> of the National Popular Front, which openly declares itself as\u00a0no-vax and is accused of neo-fascist sympathies: a natural fit for\u00a0Geadis given the pre-existing ties with the ECR group and, particularly, FdI. Other new\u00a0entries include\u00a0the Latvian from Lista Unita (AS), Reinis Poznaks,<\/strong> and\u00a0Fernand Kartheiser<\/strong> of the reformist Democratic Alternative Party (ADR) in Luxembourg. It is the first time the grand duchy is represented within the ECR.<\/p>\n

“Our steady growth proves that our political project, which advocates a middle ground that seeks a better balance of expertise between Brussels and the national capitals, is credible and attractive,” comments Nicola Procaccini,<\/strong> the group’s current co-chair, whose joy may not end there. The conservatives say this is just\u00a0a first reorganization, and further new admissions may come later.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“We expect other delegations to join in the next round of admissions,” the ECR said. However, it will be necessary to\u00a0wait as the final make-up of the group will be decided on June 26, when it will elect the Presidency Office, with Italy, the first delegation, vying to become its leader.<\/p>\n

For now, there is no talk\u00a0of an entry of Fidesz, the party of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban<\/strong>. The topic was not the subject of today’s (June 12) meeting, but it does not appear to be on the agenda of the upcoming meetings either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The decision made at the group’s first post-election meeting. For the first time Luxembourg is represented. A Cypriot, a Latvian and a Croatian also join<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":369443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[27741,28143,28149,26637,26676,25822,26755],"class_list":["post-369518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-alleanze-en","tag-brothers-ditalia-en-2","tag-brothers-ditaly","tag-ecr-en","tag-conservatives-in","tag-parliament-en","tag-nicola-procaccini-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369634,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369518\/revisions\/369634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}