MEP Dacian Ciolos declared on Monday in Ploiesti that he is not worried about the future majority in the European Parliament, voicing „conviction” that there will be a pro-European majority again.

„From all the evaluations and estimates that I have seen so far, in no current pro-European alliance between the political group Renew Europe, of which I am a part and which I led for two and a half years, is the EPP and the social group-democratsin danger. So there is not, at least for now, a risk that this majority will be affected. (…) I am convinced that citizens who are dissatisfied with the way the European Union works will also look at what we are proposing us to correct the European functioning, because we also say that not all things are going well at the European level, but we also have solutions. We have implemented some of them, we will implement others and we want to continue what we started. That’s why I am not worried that we might not have a majority of pro-European parties in the future European Parliament. I am convinced that we will have this pro-European majority,” Ciolos told a press conference.

He pointed out that maybe the new majority will not be as consistent as the one in the mandate that is ending, but it will exist.

„We are still betting on the same majority, even if the number of extremist MEPs will increase. In these five years we have not collaborated at all with the extremist parties in the European Parliament, they were isolated in the EP. Of course they had the right to vote, to promote amendments, but there were no negotiations with them, they were not part of the political projects that we built,” explained Ciolos.

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