The most divided European chamber fears a tough road ahead for von der Leyen and a war for the PP against Teresa Ribera.

Bipartisanship in Europe ended long ago and the populists and socialists, who had shared the EU ‘pie’ for years, had to open their coalition doors to the liberals. But with the rise of extremist, populist and anti-European forces this treaty is increasingly losing ground. That’s what Ursula von der Leyen suffered this Wednesday in the vote for her new College of Commissioners, coming out with the slimmest of margins in the divided European Parliament, in which the extreme right holds a third of the seats.

And attempts by both von der Leyen and Manfred Weber, the European People’s Party, to work with a variable geometry have had their influence on the final result. The two German leaders’ passion is to woo the Italian far-right Giorgia Meloni, who abstained from the leaders’ decision of 27 to nominate von der Leyen for re-election and Fratelli d’Italia’s 24 MEPs voted against it. Month of July. Despite the rudeness, the hand was extended and the President of the European Commission decided to bring the extreme right into the European leadership with the vice-presidency for Raffaele Fito. And this despite warnings from socialists and liberals, who rejected the move outright.