Despite saying in April that cooperation with Germany’s AfD and France’s National Rally was 'not possible at all,' Manfred Weber, the EPP’s German leader, now appears to have changed his mind (Photo: European Parliament)

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Will centrist EPP join forces with ‘rightwing extremists’?

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Green Economy

by Wester van Gaal, Amsterdam,

The European Parliament’s biggest political group, the European People’s Party (EPP), is about to cross a line.

In a key vote on rolling back corporate sustainability and due diligence laws set for Thursday (13 November), the EPP is preparing to team up with the far-right, including Germany’s AfD party.

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Author Bio

Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.