The far right is already undermining the European Union from within.

StrasbourgOne of the obsessions of the European far right was end the European projectThe European Union was the source of all evil, and they advocated for member states to regain all the powers they had ceded to Brussels. However, the tone of the parties, such as Italy's Giorgia Meloni or Marine Le Pen, against the EU blog has softened, and they are increasingly occupying more and more spaces of power within the European institutions. Thus, they have stopped playing the role of eternal rebel in the EU and are now playing an active role in its governance and fully participating in the decisions made.

The latest example has been seen in the European Parliament. this last week. Patriots for Europe, one of the most far-right MEP groups, has managed to lead the passage of one of the most important laws in the European green agenda in the European Parliament: the one that sets out the obligations and measures to be taken to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90% in 1990 compared to levels 9. PEN and, among others, Vox would not have achieved this without the support of other far-right groups and the votes in favor of the European People's Party, which has already definitively broken the cordon sanitaire.

Leading the passage of this law in the European Parliament will allow Patriots for Europe to fully influence the negotiations and set the pace of the legislative processes; in other words, it can hinder it. In this sense, the president of the National Regroupment, Frenchman Jordan Bardella, has already warned that he is "completely" against this law and that he intends to "make his "vision" clear. Given this, most parliamentary groups wanted to urgently process this environmental law to prevent it from falling into the hands of the far right, but the European People's Party also prevented this.

In fact, if the far right has managed to enter the engine room of the European institutions, it is largely thanks to the conservatives. For the first time in history, the right and the far right have a majority and, therefore, can process initiatives with the votes against them of the Social Democrats—who are the second largest MEP family in the European Parliament—nor the Liberals and the Greens, who form the so-called "Republican Party." grand coalitionThus, when conservatives want to approve measures against climate change or immigration, they sometimes choose to ally themselves with the far right and ignore the Party of European Socialists, which has seen its influence in the European Parliament and the European Commission (the Council of the EU, the institution that represents the member states) diminish. Nor had it ever held a position as important as a vice-presidency in the EU executive, and during this term, one of Meloni's strongmen, Raffaele Fitto, was appointed to head the Cohesion portfolio and also the EU budget. European club leaders like Meloni or, for example, the new Belgian Prime Minister, Bart De Wever, who had been highly critical of the EU before coming to power. Thus, they generally do not veto or hinder the general consensus of the other partners, unlike the pro-Russian Hungarian Viktor Orbán.

The EU embraces the far-right's measures.

The far right is not only gaining positions of power in the European institutions, but also changing the course of the European project in various ways. What is clear is the green agenda: it has gone from being one of the crown jewels of the EU to an excessive ambition that must be tempered to avoid losing competitiveness, according to the current position of most European leaders. This is a rhetoric the far right has long repeated ad nauseam, and now it is beginning to reap its rewards, with the relaxation and rollback of all kinds of environmental measures.

The far right's influence on immigration issues is also evident. Until a few months ago, the deportation of asylum seekers outside the EU seemed like a red line that could not be crossed, and the European Commission itself warned that it did not comply with humanitarian and international law. In contrast, in the last term, von der Leyen introduced a package of anti-immigration measures to provide a legal framework for these types of expulsions, one of the main demands of the far right.