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THE BRUSSELS LETTER. The Konrad-Adenauer Foundation’s barometer shows a surge in the ECR group, but no major upheavals, one year from the Europeans. The game remains open.
By Emmanuel Berretta
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Ihe scenario for the European elections is not written, but, one year before the election, a few trends are emerging: the conservatives of the ECR group would be strengthened by 66 to 83 deputies (under the pressure of the Fratelli d’Italia), while the three parties of the current majority – EPP, S&D and Renew – would lose their feathers without collapsing. It is the result of the compilation of the polls carried out in April, at the request of the EPP, by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation that Point was able to consult. We must always take these compiled polls with caution and never lose sight of the fact that the European elections are a collection of national elections, in which European issues are mostly in the background.
This being said, the EPP Christian Democrats would remain in the lead, dropping from 177 to 1…