The new political group in the European Parliament, Patriots for Europe, which includes the Czech opposition ANO movement, serves Russia's interests and threatens Europe's security, according to Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala. Vít Havelka, a senior research fellow at EUROPEUM Institute, commented on the new party for ČT24.
If it continues to characterise itself as a protest faction and to define itself quite strongly against basically everything that comes from the European Union, it cannot expect to have that much influence within the European Parliament, even with its number of MEPs.
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