Strasbourg, France ¨C Far-right parties are riding high in the European Parliament after teaming up with the mainstream right to get key priorities past the finish line ¡ª fueling ambitions of tilting the assembly their way.
Twice in as many weeks, the conservative European People¡¯s Party (EPP) of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has joined with the far-right bloc to unravel flagship environmental legislation, to the dismay of the left.
Earlier this month, the camps teamed up to gut a bill imposing social and environmental due diligence on big companies ¡ª in the name of cutting red tape.
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