Talking Europe hosts the head of the largest political group in the European Parliament, the centre-right European People’s Party. Manfred Weber, a prominent German CSU politician, is hoping that the June 9 EU elections will re-confirm the EPP’s pre-eminent position, but he is cautious on the possibility of alliances with the hard-right ECR group. We also touch on the "Russiagate" and "Piepergate" controversies, the EPP’s contentious plan to reform the EU’s asylum system, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron’s "unwise" – according to Weber – remarks about potentially sending French troops to Ukraine.
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