{"id":29087,"date":"2025-11-27T03:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29087"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:05:39","slug":"far-right-riding-high-in-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29087","title":{"rendered":"Far-right riding high in European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Far-right parties are riding high in the European Parliament after teaming up with the mainstream right to get key texts past the finish line \u2014\u00a0fuelling ambitions to tilt the assembly their way.<\/p>\n<p>Twice in as many weeks, the conservative EPP party of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has joined with the far-right bloc to unravel flagship environmental legislation, to the dismay of the left.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the camps teamed up to gut a bill imposing social and environmental due diligence on big companies \u2014\u00a0in the name of cutting back red tape.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, they did it again by backing a one-year delay to a landmark law aimed at curbing deforestation \u2014\u00a0a move also supported by part of the centrist group, Renew. Less than 18 months after making big gains in EU elections, the far right is delighted at the turn of events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at a tipping point,\u201d said a lawmaker from the Patriots group, which is headed by France\u2019s National Rally, speaking anonymously.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-right parties are riding high in the European Parliament after teaming up with the mainstream right to get key texts past the finish line \u2014\u00a0fuelling ambitions to tilt the assembly their way. Twice in as many weeks, the conservative EPP party of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has joined with the far-right bloc to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}