June 11, 2009, 8:42 CET
Jobbik seeks to form "EU-realistic" group in EP
The radical nationalist Jobbik party's three deputies will seek to initiate a new group of "EU-realists" in the European Parliament, Jobbik head Gabor Vona told reporters in Budapest on Wednesday.
Jobbik wants to be in a group with parties that oppose the European Union's Lisbon Treaty and will avoid groups including "openly anti-Hungarian" parties, Vona said.
Jobbik's top priority is to represent Hungarian employees and farmers, and small and medium-size businesses, as well as ethnic Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries, Vona said.
Vona confirmed that his party would send the first three names on its election list, Krisztina Morvai, Zoltan Balczo and Csanad Szegedi to the EP.
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"a group with parties that oppose the European Union's Lisbon Treaty and will avoid groups including "openly anti-Hungarian" parties"
So what is left then:
# UEN : Union for Europe of the Nations Group
# GREENS/ EFA : Group of the Greens / European Free Alliance
# IND/ DEM : Independence/Democracy Group
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From July 2009, all political groups must include Members from at least seven Member States.
The minimum number of Members required to establish a political group is 25.
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So Jobbik (3) and BNP (2) must find 20 more friends from 5 different states to form/be in a group.
The most likely group is UEN, but Slovak SNS is already there so that is maybe not so likely.
On the other hand there are so many new in Others, so there can be a new constellation. What speaks about that is the simple fact so many parties and countries involved that they hardly can agree on what time it is.
Wrong.