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Europeans: call of social democrats against the far right

by AI | 23.May 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Several European Social Democratic leaders launched the “Paris Appeal” on Thursday to denounce, less than three weeks before the European elections, a possible alliance between the center-right and the far-right.

The head of the French Socialist Party (PS) and the Public Place Party for the European elections, Raphael Glucksmann (right), gives a press conference with Frans Timmermans, head of the Dutch GroenLinks-PvdA party, as part of his campaign in Paris, on May 23, 2024. (Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

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Paris – Social democratic leaders, including French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann and Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans, have signed a text called “the Paris Appeal” to “build a robust barrier against the far right.”

“We commit ourselves to relentlessly fighting hatred, racism, and xenophobia,” they declare in this text, published in several European media outlets.

Frans Timmermans, former Vice President of the European Commission, especially criticizes the government agreement reached in the Netherlands between the liberals and the far-right party PVV.

He emphasized during a press conference with Mr. Glucksmann that “for the first time, the center-right is considering changing course and aligning with the far right” in Parliament. “But if we look at what is happening in member states where the far right is in power,” such as Sweden or the Netherlands, “the center-right has been neutralized by the far right,” he warned. (23.05.2024)

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