“My colleagues felt betrayed as a result of the EPP didn’t respect the deal and so they voted along with the Patriots [on] a number of amendments,” Negrescu mentioned. “[That] is an issue since you see rapporteurs from EPP or shadow [rapporteurs] incapable of preserving the unity” of the group.
After the EPP pulled its transfer, S&D, Renew and the Greens determined to vote in opposition to the textual content as an entire, alongside the Patriots who, regardless of their success in getting the migration amendments handed, regarded the decision itself as “unacceptable,” Hungarian MEP Tamás Deutsch mentioned.
“In case you like counting on the far proper, then perhaps you’ll get an modification handed, however you’ll not get the finances handed,” Andersen noticed.
The EPP, for its half, later reprimanded the S&D for having siding with the Patriots to carry the decision down, saying on their Spanish X account: “Opposites entice.”
However not everybody throughout the EPP agreed with its choice to facet with the extremists: “This was the choice of the group. Personally, I assumed it was a mistake,” the EPP’s lead MEP on the file, Andrzej Halicki, advised POLITICO.
“We should always not give area to the enemies of Europe and have a naive view that they act in good religion, particularly since these points had been coated within the textual content of the decision. They didn’t add something new. I hope that sooner or later this won’t be the case.”
Halicki, nonetheless, himself voted in favor of the far-right amendments.
This isn’t the primary time political squabbles over migration have affected the EU’s annual finances. In April 2023 an identical scenario occurred through the approval of the 2024 finances.
