Despite gains from far-right parties, a centrist majority in the European Parliament will elect a European Commission similar to the outgoing one and maintain a European Union that is largely pro-European integration and supportive of the green agenda, prioritizing policies to enhance the bloc's competitiveness, strategic autonomy and defense capabilities over the coming years. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's center-right European People's Party (EPP) received the most votes in the European Parliament elections held on June 6-9, gaining 186 seats in the new 720-seat supranational legislature. The center-left Socialists & Democrats (S&D) obtained 135 seats and the liberal Renew Europe (RE) group obtained 79, which gives the three parties forming the current coalition in the outgoing Parliament a combined 400 seats, enough to form a new majority (even if, combined, they lost 17 seats from the previous election). The far-right European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and...
