Brussels: Europe and the Arabs 
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party, in France called for the regrouping of far-right parties in the European Parliament. They currently remain divided into the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the Identity and Democracy (ID). By creating a new "supergroup", the French far right wants to become the second largest faction. “This is an opportunity that should not be missed.”
On June 9th, it will not only be federal and regional elections in Belgium. From June 6 to 9, the entire European Union will go to the polls to elect a new European Parliament. In the wake of those European elections, Marine Le Pen in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera called for a new alliance between the European groups ECR and ID. “It's time to join forces, and this will be very helpful,” she says. Le Pen is also communicating with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of the far-right Fratelli d'Italia party.
Currently, far-right parties in the European Parliament remain divided between two factions. Le Pen's National Rally (RN) is part of the Eurosceptic identity, just like Belgium's Vlaams Belang and Geert Wilders' Dutch party, the Italian League, among others. 
Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia party is part of the European Council of Constitutional Rights, which also includes the Spanish Vox party and the Polish Law and Justice party. The Belgian N-VA is also part of the reformist ECR, although the Flemish nationalists may look elsewhere after 9 June because they "no longer feel at home" with European conservatives and reformists, Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon said in January.
Le Pen's call comes less than a week after the coalition to which she belongs decided to immediately expel the far-right Alternative for Germany party from the group. . “The AfD is moving from one provocation to another. It is no longer enough to distance ourselves from the party. It is time to clearly separate from it.”
Expectations indicate that right-wing (extremist) parties will win many seats in the European elections. By compensating for the AfD's loss of seats with the arrival of new right-wing parties, such as Vox, PiS, or even Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party, the major right-wing group could easily become the second largest European faction. After the center-right European People's Party (with the CD&V, the German Christian Democratic Union, the French Republicans, and the Dutch Christian Democratic Party). “I don’t think we should miss this opportunity,” Le Pen said in the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Ursula von der Leyen, with whom Meloni has a better relationship than Le Pen, wants a second term as President of the European Commission, and in order to get a majority in the European Parliament behind her, the German Christian Democrats are willing to cooperate with the ECR. Such cooperation would mean a rightward shift in EU policy, including in the areas of migration, climate and defence. It's an offer that would give Meloni - and Italy - more direct influence in Europe, and therefore potentially more influence. 
The Italian Prime Minister said that nothing can be ruled out. “My main goal is to build an alternative majority, a center-right majority, which should push the left into opposition,” she told Italian television. Currently, the EPP is the largest group in the European Parliament (176 seats), ahead of the Socialists and Social Democrats (139), the Liberal Renewal Party (102), the Green Party/EFA (72), and the European Christian Party (79). ) and the reformists (49) and the far left (37).,