European Parliament, Conservatives and Patriots mark the end of Identity and Democracy

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The Identity and Democracy Group no longer has the numbers to constitute itself in the European Parliament, with its members being sucked in by the European Conservatives and Reformists or the new Patriots for Europe.

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00:00Brutal days are unfolding for the radical right in the European Parliament.

00:06The group of conservatives and reformists which includes Italy's Brothers of Italy and

00:12Poland's PIS has officially been established, increasing the numbers of its deputies to

00:1884.

00:20This makes it the third largest group in the European chamber.

00:24The political weight has moved in a sensitive way to the right and this will make the role

00:31of European conservatives particularly strategic because it is barycentric within the political

00:40realities of the centre-right and this will give us the possibility of being particularly

00:47influential.

00:48Another radical right group, Patriots for Europe, was founded on June 30 by Hungarian

00:55Prime Minister Viktor Orban alongside nationalist parties from Czechia and Austria.

01:02This group has the potential to attract additional members such as France's National Rally.

01:09Some of these parties have a very pragmatist approach.

01:12They need a group in order to have roles in the parliament, lead committees and receive

01:18money so eventually they might compromise.

01:23I still think it's more likely they would compromise in order to join Orban's new party

01:27rather than ECR.

01:30These moves could mean the end of identity and democracy, the group in which the Lega

01:36and National Rally MEPs currently sit.

01:40At the moment, ID lacks the necessary numbers to form a group.

01:45The day of truth will be July 8 when both Patriots for Europe and Identity and Democracy

01:51hold their constitutive meetings.

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