POLICY COMPASS

From Ballots to Policy: Assessing Post-Election Realities in the European Parliament

By Klitos Philippides

25 June 2024

In this paper we discuss:

• The results of the EU elections, with the rise of right-wing parties;
• How the centrist grand coalition will likely remain in place, but with smaller numbers;
• The policy concessions to right-wing parties the new Commission will have to make on green deal, climate change, foreign policy and immigration; and
• The risk that a serious "institutional crisis" emerges in case the EU Parliament were to vote down the EU Commission led again by Von der Leyen.

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