An MEP from France's National Rally
(RN) said Monday that Marine Le Pen's far right party had not
burned its bridges with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, a friend
and ally of Le Pen's.
"There are national considerations to do in each of the two
countries," said Jean-Paul Garraud, speaking on behalf of RN
President Jordan Bardella at the launch conference for Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban's new Patriots for Europe group, of
which Bardella will be caucus leader.
"The group is not a monolith but there are nuances in various
spheres because we are part of a nationalist group, we respect
each State's sovereignty," said Garraud after the Patriots
became the third biggest European Parliament caucus behind the
centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and the Socialists
and Democrats (S&D), with 84 members, six more than Meloni's
Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).
"At the same time that doesn't mean that we have burned our
bridges, things evolve and they evolve in good sense".
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