Virtually all top positions in the EU institutions are now held by conservative politicians linked to the right-leaning EPP group. Two of these, the EU Parliament’s president, Antonio Tajani (Italy), and its secretary-general, Klaus Welle (Germany) blocked the accreditation of the two Catalan MPs, Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín, last week. Apparently the two conservative politicians decided this alone (there is nothing democratic about the EU).
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