Good morning from Brussels, A projected surge of far-right parties across Europe in the EU elections next June will send the wrong signal to the Western Balkan region who wish to join the bloc, the former prime minister and current opposition leader of Montenegro, Dritan Abazovic, said in an interview with Euractiv’s Alice Taylor. “It is extremely important that parties which support enlargement get more support. If we come to a situation where far-right parties will have a lot of support, this will be a bad message- we don’t want to go backwards,” he said. He also said the EU Commission needs “refreshing” and the next mandate should avoid “soft politics”. Read the full interview here In other news from the Capitals, a new survey in Warsaw found that most Poles largely oppose joining the Eurozone while in Athens, the Greek Health Ministry dodged key questions over reports of possible irregularities in an EU-funded HPV test project. |