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Flemish party N-VA remains a member of the conservative ECR group

by AI | 04.Jul 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The three elected members of the Flemish party N-VA will continue to be part of the ECR group in the European Parliament for the next five years. The Polish party PiS also remains on board.

The European Parliament in plenary session in Strasbourg (Photo: Philippe Stirnweiss/European Parliament/dpa)

Brussels – In the European Parliament, the N-VA remains a member of the ECR group, the European Conservatives and Reformists. This is reported by MEP Johan Van Overtveldt. With three elected members, the N-VA is one of the three largest Belgian parties in the hemicycle.

Earlier this year, Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon still stated that the N-VA no longer feels at home with the ECR and might look for other places after the elections on June 9. But after a few weeks of negotiations, everything remains the same.

This means that the former Minister of Finance Van Overtveldt and the two other elected members of N-VA – Assita Kanko and Kris Van Dijck – will remain on the ECR benches for the next five years.

The Polish opposition party PiS (Law and Justice) also remains with the ECR. As a result, the group will have 84 members in the next legislature.