EU politics has always relied on awkward alliances between countries and political ideologies that represent vastly different electorates.
Francois Greuez/SIPA/APThe European Parliament is the place where this is most visible at an EU level.
Most of the lawmakers (known as MEPs) belong to a political party in their own country.
ECR and ID are typical of European Parliament parties in that they are home to a pretty broad group of conservatives.
The European Parliament can often seem like looks like a boring, bureaucratic blob, tediously grinding its way through process.
Persons:
Francois Greuez, Angela Merkel, Christoph Reichwein, David Cameron, Georgia Meloni, Viktor Orban, Orban, Ursula von der Leyen, Giorgia Meloni, Hungary's Viktor Orban, –, Geert Wilders
Organizations:
CNN, European Union, National Rally, European, European People’s Party, EPP, European Conservatives, Politico, British, Brexit, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia EU, EU, SS, Nazi, Dursun, ERC, European Commission, Kremlin
Locations:
United States, South Africa, Mexico, Taiwan, Ukraine, China, EU, France, Belgian, Brussels, Hungary, Russia, Italian, Anadolu, United Kingdom, Germany, Europe, Netherlands, Europe’s