EU Parliament: Macron wants to work with liberals

After the European elections will make the party of the French President, together with former liberal Block of a new group in the Parliament. Also, the FDP is part of the Alliance.

The liberals in the EU Parliament want to form, together with the list of the Renaissance of France's ruling party, La République en Marche (LREM) is a new group in the European Parliament. The FDP said, as German party member of the new Alliance. The previous liberal group of the Alliance of liberals and Democrats for Europe (Alde) in the European Parliament, was met on Saturday with representatives of the list for Renaissance, said the FDP.

candidate of the Alde parties.

Liberals want the Conservatives to break

Alde and the list of the Renaissance were determined "to make the European elections a new political group in the European Parliament", which will be open to accession by other like-minded parties. The new group will be "a new force" in the EU Parliament, and "the current Grand coalition of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats quit," said the FDP. "We are ready to form a coalition with other reform-oriented groups in the European Parliament, who share our goals," it said.

LREM of the President of France, Emmanuel Macron wants to in the EU Parliament, the Power of the Conservative break. Among the parties that signed the agreement, therefore, in addition to the FDP and the Renaissance, the Spanish centre-right Alliance Ciudadanos, D66 from the Netherlands, the Momentum from Hungary, MR from Belgium, the Austrian Neos, and VVD from the Netherlands.

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