A conference of leaders of European conservative and far-right parties is taking place in Brussels, where they plan to agree on the main principles and unite before the June elections to the European Parliament. UNN writes about this with reference to Voice of America.
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The key speakers were Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, French politician Eric Zemmour, as well as Suella Braverman, a representative of the right wing of the Conservative Party of Great Britain, and another Briton, Nigel Farage, known for his campaign for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
The newspaper writes that the main themes of the "National Conservative" conference indicate that the main problems of the extreme right now are closer integration in the European Union, immigration and multiculturalism, and what they call threats to traditional family values.
Under these slogans, the far right is campaigning, hoping for success in the European Parliament elections.
Repeating accusations of Brussels' "tyranny" and insisting on the need to protect national sovereignty from EU integration processes, the European far right voices the same slogans as British "Eurosceptics" proclaimed in the campaign for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
Viktor Orban, who has become the most prominent representative of nationalist and anti-liberal forces in the EU, has been particularly critical of the EU's governing structures, but has not proposed the country's withdrawal from the EU. Instead, Orban stated that he wanted to "repair the European Union from the inside by rallying the allies." Earlier in the interview, he emphasized that his supporters should "occupy Brussels".
A significant part of the far right has shown a commitment to the anti-liberal slogans of Putin's Russia, where the government proclaims itself the defender of "traditional values" as opposed to the principles of Western democracy. The same Hungarian government emphasizes the need for cooperation with Moscow and calls EU sanctions imposed on Russia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine harmful.
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After the elections, which will be held on June 6-9, 720 MEPs will be elected. They will influence the political processes in the EU by approving European laws and approving officials in executive bodies, including the next president of the European Commission.
Polls suggest that extreme right-wing parties in the EU can count on greater voter support than before.