EU: Conservatives urged to work towards pro-European solution for Omnibus proposal ahead of key vote & not ally with far right
"EU Parliament’s centrists scramble to cut far right out of green rules plan", 10 November 2025
The EU's biggest political family — the center-right European People's Party — has a Plan A and a Plan B to get the simplification package over the line during a vote this week: the former involves working with its traditional allies (the Socialists and Democrats, the Greens and liberals of Renew); the latter means joining forces with the parties of the far right, a move that would once have been unthinkable...
The centrists are again working together to get the deal done, but just in case, the EPP has drawn up a proposal to cut green rules that it is confident will get the support of right-wing and far-right groups...
Last week, the Socialists, Renew and Greens suggested a compromise text in which they offered to reduce climate transition plan obligations for businesses in exchange for including more companies within the scope of the law. That is the current basis of negotiations, two officials said.
The EPP initially did not respond to that offer and instead put forward amendments that mirrored the compromise it had already secured with the support of far-right groups...
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