EU Far-Right Tracker is a public monitoring tool that exposes every instance in which the European People’s Party votes alongside far-right groups in the European Parliament.
Despite repeated reassurances from Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – most recently during her 2025 State of the Union address – the European People’s Party (EPP) continues to rely on the far right to pass legislation or secure short-term political wins.
This long list below proves what we have feared since the early days of the new EU political cycle: the EPP is not simply flirting with the far right – it has institutionalised a tactical alliance of convenience. Whenever numbers are tight, it turns rightwards, normalising extremist positions and undermining Europe’s democratic core.
These alliances may deliver short-term parliamentary wins. But the long-term price is immense: erosion of democratic safeguards, weakened climate ambition, compromised transparency, and a dangerous legitimisation of forces that thrive on division and exclusion.
We will keep this list updated to track each time the EPP aligns with far-right groups in the European Parliament.
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Initiative
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New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) – February 2024
EPP secured a majority with Renew, ECR, and ID to push through the proposal
Nature Restoration Act – February 2024
EPP leadership tried to sink the law, aligning with ECR and ID
Backing Charlie Weimers (Sweden Democrats, ECR) – May 2024
EPP supported his rise to a key parliamentary role
Resolution on Venezuela – September 2024
The EPP joined the far right to recognise Edmundo González as Venezuela’s president
Sakharov Prize Decision – October 2024
The Venezuelan opposition leaders were nominated jointly by the EPP and ECR, with the far-right Patriots rallying behind them after their own candidate, Elon Musk, was excluded
Delaying the Anti-Deforestation Law – December 2024
Together with the far right, EPP tried to postpone the EU’s anti-deforestation rules by a year
Budget Amendments – April 2025
Repeatedly, the EPP voted alongside PfE, ECR, and ESN to shape EU budget priorities
Agenda 2030 Financing Report – June 2025
The EPP sided with far-right groups against Europe’s commitments to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Working Group to scrutinise NGOs’ use of EU funds – June 2025
the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee (CONT) formally approved the creation of a Working Group to scrutinise NGOs’ use of EU funds. This was made possible by the European People’s Party (EPP) joining forces with far-right groups.
Blocking the EU Ethics Body– July 2025
EPP sided with the far right to stop the creation of a long-overdue European ethics watchdog
ECON Committee report on small business – September 2025
the Patriots for Europe celebrated majority support for a report on small business, framing it as proof that the long-standing refusal of mainstream parties to collaborate with the far right is over and the end of the cordon sanitaire.
Forest health data collection law – October 2025
MEPs from the European People’s Party (EPP) and far-right groups once again joined forces in the plenary on 21/10/25 to vote down the EU’s proposed law on forest monitoring, calling on the Commission to withdraw the proposal entirely.
Omnibus I – November 2025
The European People’s Party (EPP) and the three far-right groups allied to pass the EU’s first omnibus simplification package, approving cuts to green rules.
Delay of Anti-Deforestation Bill – November 2025
A bill was passed to delay the implementation of the EU’s deforestation regulation by one year. This move, led by EPP and far right groups and supported by some from Renew Europe, softened due diligence obligations for businesses and postponed the law’s entry into force.
Push for Member State Sovereignty – November 2025
A non-binding report was approved urging the European Commission to limit its regulatory activity and defer more authority to national parliaments. The report stressed the importance of national and regional parliaments having a stronger role in legislative scrutiny and called for stricter adherence to subsidiarity and proportionality principles, seeking to rebalance power away from EU central bodies toward national governments.
Declaration on SME and Scale-Up Financing – November 2025
The Parliament also adopted a declaration outlining measures to improve access to financing for SMEs and scale-ups. The declaration advocated for reducing regulatory burdens, stimulating private investment, and promoting co-investment platformss.
AFCO vote on Zan’s Report – March 2026
The report on the implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the EU legal framework, which marks 25 years of the landmark law, was rejected by the EPP and far right in the AFCO committee.
LIBE vote on deportation bill – March 2026
A law enabling detention centres built outside the EU to accelerate the return of irregular migrants has been approved at committee level, splitting Parliament’s traditional majority.
LIBE and IMCO vote Digital Omnibus – March 2026
The Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees adopted their joint position on a simplification (“omnibus”) proposal amending the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA)
As The Good Lobby’s how-to guide To Engage or Not to Engage with the Far Right? shows, civil society today faces a radically new political landscape. With the far right now holding over a quarter of seats in the European Parliament, the EPP acts as kingmaker. Its repeated decision to side with illiberal forces is not neutral pragmatism – it is the slow dismantling of the cordon sanitaire, once a cornerstone of European democracy.