Signatories, including MEP Raphaël Glucksmann and Frans Timmermans, promise to ‘combat hatred, racism and xenophobia’
have ruled out alliances with the far right and pledged to “relentlessly combat hatred, racism and xenophobia” ahead of European parliamentary elections likely to see significant gains by hardline nationalists.
Others to join the appeal were Paul Magnette of the Belgian Socialist party , Nicolas Schmit, lead candidate of Europe’s Socialists & Democrats for the job of European Commission president, the Spanish Socialist Iratxe García, German Social Democrat Katarina Barley, Poland’s Robert Biedroń and Italy’s Elly Schlein.
Another trigger for the socialists’ intervention is thought to be the decision by centre-right Dutch VVD party last week towith Geert Wilders’s far-right Freedom Party . As a result, the European parliament’s liberal group – to which the VVD belongs – has promised a vote on whether to allow it to remain a member.
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