Don't close door to ECR for EP majority says Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 17 - Foreign Minister and centre-left post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) leader Antonio Tajani on Mìonday appealed to his European People's Party (EPP) "not to close the door" on Premier Giorgia Meloni's European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in talks on a new European Parliament majority.
    The existing majority of the EPP, Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the Liberals appears set to be confirmed, without any new entries, after lower than expected rightwing gains at the European elections.
    But Tajani said he didn't think that "such a variegated reality" as the EP can restrict itself to a three-way majority and that "we must keep up dialogue (with the ECR)" He also warned against the EPP-Socialist-Liberal majority being extended to the Greens arguing that "we need a European policy on fighting climate change that is not fundamentalist policies but pragmatic politics". (ANSA).