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Spain’s Center-Right ‘Foolish’ To Think EPP Would Upset EU Alliance, Expert Says

Eurasia Review Monday, 25 November 2024 ()
By Fernando Heller

(EurActiv) -- Spain's Partido Popular (PP) was foolish if it thought that European People's Party (EPP) leader Manfred Weber would break the grand coalition with the S&D and Liberals in the European Parliament in exchange for torpedoing future commissioner Teresa Ribera, Ignacio Molina, an expert on EU...
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