Fidesz MEP Gál, 1st VP of Patriots for Europe EP group shared her thoughts about their primary goals

The new Patriots for Europe EP group will aim to bring common sense back into European politics, Kinga Gál, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz and the group’s first vice-president, said in an interview in daily Magyar Nemzet’s Wednesday edition.

Gál said the group’s most pressing objective was to prevent the enforcement of political pacts “made by the unprincipled Brussels mainstream”.

Patriots for Europe will keep the fight against illegal migration and the protection of the EU’s external borders on the agenda, she said. The MEP also underscored the need to take specific steps to get the European Green Deal back to being “grounded in reality” lest it should “ruin the security of European agriculture and the competitiveness of European farmers”.

Gál said there were “considerable efforts under way” to undermine the national sovereignty of member states, and therefore everything possible had to be done in the interest of “pushing back against these centralist, federalist trends” and enforcing policies that respect member state competencies.