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The EU sweep: Silly season in Germany, storm in Spain and Mette diss in Denmark

Many election posters in Denmark - but none of Mette Frederiksen. At the top right Alberto Núñez Feijóo can be seen and at the bottom left a carnival where Sahra Wagenknecht is mentioned.

In Denmark, the previously popular Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is hidden away in the EU election campaign. In Germany things happen on the left side and in Spain it storms on the right instead.

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Wagenknecht recruits football profile

Footballer Oliver Ruhnert is joining the left-wing German party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, which was founded in January and looks set to win several seats in the European Parliament. Ruhnert has held senior positions for Bundesliga club Union Berlin since 2018.

- We have brought in a top name. He knows how to get promoted to the Bundesliga, assert himself there and take on the big, seemingly overpowered opponents, says Wagenknecht.

Unexpected play creates a storm in Spain

The populist PP, which is part of the conservative EPP group in the EU Parliament, has found itself in a storm in Spain. This after party chairman Alberto Núñez Feijóo spoke unexpectedly warmly about Giorgia Meloni, Italy's prime minister and poster name in the national conservative party group ECR. Spanish El País describes the outcome as a "gift" to Spain's social democrats - and sources in the PP describe it as a setback.

Frederiksen is dissed on the posters

The Danish Social Democrats highlight several of their top politicians on the EU election posters, but Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is not on a single one, writes the Danish Altinget. The newspaper's political commentator Erik Holstein describes it as "strange", but links it to her declining popularity. The party refers to tradition, but that explanation condemns Holstein.

"Everyone is talking about von der Leyen's flirtation with the right"

After the second EU election debate between the possible EU Commission presidents, "everyone is talking" that Ursula von der Leyen left the door wide open for a collaboration with the right-wing populists in the parliament. That's what Euractiv writes in its daily newsletter "The Brief". In the debate, she squirmed when pressed to answer whether she accepts the far-right's LGBTQI policy.

Abortion rights campaigners welcome Le Pen

When Marine Le Pen, party leader of the French far-right party Nationale Samling, arrives in Lille on Friday, she is met by abortion rights fighters, writes Politico. The activists call on people to vote no to a strong right-wing turn in the EU Parliament.

- Normally no one dares to speak up, says organizer Alice Coffin.  

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"Over a hundred in parliament work for Russia"

Over a hundred MEPs work more or less consciously for Russia, says Estonian MEP Urmas Paet to Aftonbladet. In total, just over 700 elected representatives sit in parliament.

- Some claim that the arms aid from the West only prolongs the war. Others claim that it was Ukraine that provoked the war by wanting to become a member of the EU and NATO, says Paet. He believes that the messages are often "copy paste" of the Kremlin's propaganda.

German AFD, French National Assembly and Hungarian Fidesz are, according to Paet, the parties with the most Russia sympathizers in their ranks. In opinion polls, all three appear to be making great strides.