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“My colleagues felt betrayed as a result of the EPP didn’t respect the deal they usually 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.
“If you want counting on the far proper, then perhaps you’ll get an modification handed, however you’ll not get the funds handed,” Andersen noticed.
The EPP, for its half, later reprimanded the S&D for having siding with the Patriots to convey the decision down, saying on their Spanish X account: “Opposites appeal to.”
But not everybody inside the EPP agreed with its choice to aspect with the extremists: “This was the choice of the group. Personally, I believed it was a mistake,” the EPP’s lead MEP on the file, Andrzej Halicki, informed POLITICO.
“We mustn’t give area to the enemies of Europe and have a naive view that they act in good religion, particularly since these points have been lined 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, nevertheless, 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 funds. In April 2023 an identical scenario happened throughout the approval of the 2024 funds.
