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How will EU’s shift to the right alter trade, tech and other ties with China?
- Green cooperation could be among first casualties of European Parliament after poll, while approach to Ukraine war may also change
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The European Parliament’s expected shift to the right could complicate the EU’s trade ties with China and inject new uncertainties into the bloc’s approach towards Ukraine and the intensifying US-China rivalry, analysts said.
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A record number of right-wing politicians were elected to the parliament in early June in an election involving 373 million voters in 27 European Union countries.
The centre-right European People’s Party, the party of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, retained most seats in the legislature while the socialists and the liberals suffered heavy defeats.
Their losses were blows to the parties of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, with the results prompting Macron to call snap legislative elections to be held in France from Sunday.
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