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Veronika Vrecionová was elected as the Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Luděk Niedermayer as the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Does this signify a strengthening or weakening of the Czech position? In which committees will the Czech MEPs be active? How significant is the "cordon sanitaire" of the Patriots for Europe political group? And isn't this isolation of the Patriots for Europe a limitation of democracy? Viktor Daněk, Deputy Director of EUROPEUM Institute, discusses this topic in an interview for ČT24.
23. July 2024
The fact that the Patriots for Europe did not secure any positions in the leadership of the Parliament or in the committees is just the beginning. The "cordon sanitaire" then manifests in the legislation by the fact that very often, or practically always, the members of Parliament who are isolated, which in the previous term was the far-right, whenever they came up with any amendment proposal, no matter how reasonable, the others would not discuss it at all. They refused to engage with the far-right, to draw them into influence, in order to avoid increasing their legitimacy.
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