“The reactionary and sovereignist right wing next European Championships plays a historic game for her, emerging from marginality and becoming decisive for the majorities in the European Parliament. Giorgia Meloni on the one hand he is credited as a reliable leader and mainstream of a large European country, on the other he wants to lead parties that have always been anti-European, often xenophobic and nationalist. Europe is not Italy, it will not succeed in this game and it will have to choose a side, with the risk of still remaining outside the European majority". He says it Emma Bonino, leader of +Europa, in an interview with Republic.
For this reason, Bonino believes that the next European elections are a crossroads for the EU: "We have arrived this far in a consociational comfort zone, with the EPP and the socialists governing together, opening up to liberals and greens. I have often contested this consociativism, but it is clear that if the right of Vox and Afd, of Le Pen and Orbán, of Salvini and the Polish PiS were to enter the majority, the Union would lose its democratic and liberal soul".
+Europa is organizing a convention on February 24th for the United States of Europe, “we have invited representatives of the European political families who find themselves in the Renew Europe group. The ALDE parties such as +Europa and therefore Matteo Renzi for Italia Viva e Carlo Calenda per Action. To them and to personalities and movements who want to participate, I proposed working towards a list of objectives on the United States of Europe, so that no liberal-democratic and federalist vote is wasted to stem the sovereignist right. And then we invited Elly Schlein for the Democratic Party, Angelo Bonelli for the Greens, Enzo Maraio for the socialists." And the M5S? “Conte and the M5S from the European point of view are, to put it mildly, an enigma: they started out with the Brexit leader, Nigel Farage, and they just voted against supporting Ukraine's defense. I trust that Calenda will accept the invitation: I don't want to argue with him about the past. We must unite on Europe."
