MADRID: The European Parliament\u2019s largest far-right bloc will hold its first summit in Madrid next week with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and France\u2019s Marine Le Pen in attendance, Spanish party Vox said on Monday.
\nPatriots for Europe will meet on February 7 and 8 under the presidency of Vox leader Santiago Abascal to outline their strategy for the coming months, party spokesman Jose Antonio Fuster told reporters.
\nThe group has realigned the EU far right and became the parliament\u2019s third-largest force after Orban helped launch it last year to shift Brussels rightwards.
\nIts 84 lawmakers include France\u2019s National Rally, the Party for Freedom of Dutch anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, Vox, Austria\u2019s Freedom Party and Chega from Portugal.
\nThe bloc overtook the European Conservatives and Reformists, associated with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s Brothers of Italy party, after last year\u2019s EU elections, in which the far right performed strongly in several countries.
\nFuster said there was an alternative to the coalition between the European People\u2019s Party of European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and the Socialists and Democrats.
\nSlamming \u201ctheir climate fanaticism and their open-door policies to mass immigration,\u201d Fuster said his group \u201crepresents millions of Europeans who want common sense to return to European institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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