{"id":15271,"date":"2017-11-13T04:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T04:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/guy-verhofstadt-struggles-to-herd-catalans-in-fractious-party\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T04:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T04:51:51","slug":"guy-verhofstadt-struggles-to-herd-catalans-in-fractious-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/guy-verhofstadt-struggles-to-herd-catalans-in-fractious-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Verhofstadt struggles to herd Cat(alan)s in fractious party"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

European leaders have managed a united front in backing Spain against Catalan separatists, but the issue shows up deep divisions in the fourth biggest group in the European Parliament \u2014 the Liberals.<\/p>\n

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) is at times less an alliance than a fractious assembly with disparate credos and little to unite them. Its membership ranges from Spain\u2019s centrist Ciudadanos to the political vehicle of a sometime Euroskeptical Czech billionaire and ethnic Turkish Bulgarian parliamentarians.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, the Catalan debate has deteriorated into a shouting match between Liberal MEPs and crystallized the challenge facing former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who presides over ALDE. he\u2019s the one who has to herd these cats, and it looks like an increasingly trying exercise.<\/p>\n

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Leader of the Czech ANO movement Andrej Babis (R) and ALDE group leader Guy Verhofstadt on November 01, 2017 in Prague | Michal Cizek\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The disputed Catalan independence vote \u2014 and Madrid\u2019s response to it \u2014 has sparked a bitter spat that manifests itself in loud arguments at internal meetings, snide emails and rumors of defections.<\/p>\n

The current acrimony centers on Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, the one MEP in the group who backs independence for Catalonia.<\/p>\n

He has been regularly lambasted by fellow ALDE MEP Enrique Calvet Chambon in internal emails seen by POLITICO for alleged disloyalty to the group after he sat with Flemish nationalist MEPs during a debate on Catalonia in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you all know, our colleague Tremosa joined another Group during the plenary; he abandoned his seat to occupy another seat in the area of the ECR Group,\u201d said Calvet Chambon in one email. He has subsequently called for Tremosa\u2019s party to be banned in Spain ahead of December regional elections.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019re constantly bringing their internal issues to our group meetings\u201d \u2014 Kaja Kallas, Estonian ALDE member<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A few days before, during an internal ALDE meeting, Calvet Chambon screamed insults at Tremosa before storming out of the room, according to people present at the meeting, while the Czech Group Vice President Pavel Teli\u010dka compared the tactics used by Spanish police in Barcelona to Russian actions in the Cold War.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re constantly bringing their internal issues to our group meetings,\u201d complained Kaja Kallas, an ALDE member from Estonia, adding that warring MEPs refused to sit in the same room at one point.<\/p>\n

Verhofstadt has sided with the seven pro-union Spanish MEPs in the group, publicly mocking the deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont as a bungling version of the Belgian cartoon character Tintin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy [Tremosa\u2019s] isolated,\u201d said Javier Nart, an MEP from the unionist Spanish party Ciudadanos, describing the Catalan MEP as \u201ca sectarian nationalist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guy\u2019s choice<\/h3>\n

ALDE was pushed into fourth position behind the Euroskeptic European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) after the 2014 election, when support for liberal parties in the U.K. and Germany collapsed. It currently has 68 MEPs. The size of the group dictates what funding it gets, which committee chairmanships it secures and how much speaking time it is allocated in plenary debates.<\/p>\n

Verhofstadt\u2019s job of keeping the unruly group together has also been complicated by last month\u2019s election victory in the Czech Republic for the populist billionaire Andrej Babi\u0161. His party, ANO 2011, is in the ALDE fold and Babi\u0161 is set to become the country\u2019s prime minister<\/a> after running a campaign that appealed to voters\u2019 hostility to joining the eurozone \u2014 something Verhofstadt regards as sacrosanct.<\/p>\n

Even so, the ALDE leader put on a brave face after meeting Babi\u0161, saying he thought he could \u201ccount on ANO to push for such a reform agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less optimistic were MEPs within his own political group. \u201cAt a certain point ALDE and ANO will have to sit down and ask \u2018Do we still match?'\u201d said MEP Teli\u010dka, a former European commissioner who quit ANO before the election over Babi\u0161\u2019 stance on the eurozone.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s clear is that Verhofstadt\u2019s support for a genuinely federal EU \u2014 earlier this year he called for the EU to be made a \u201creal union and not a loose confederation of nation states\u201d \u2014 is not shared by all 67 of his fellow ALDE MEPs. \u201cYou don\u2019t always have to agree with Guy on every issue,\u201d said Teli\u010dka.<\/p>\n

Verhofstadt\u2019s challenge is to bridge the ideological divide; his reaction to Babi\u0161\u2019 victory is instructive of his approach. In a statement to POLITICO, Verhofstadt rejected suggestions Babi\u0161 was a Euroskeptic, saying he \u201cis critical of how the current European Union works, but has constructive proposals to make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The desire to protect its numbers can sometimes lead to contradictions in ALDE\u2019s professed pro-EU stance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another question mark hovers above ALDE\u2019s four Bulgarian MEPs who belong to the country\u2019s Turkish minority party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), which was founded in 1990 by Ahmed Dogan, named in a 2007 official report<\/a> as a paid agent of the country\u2019s communist-era secret police.<\/p>\n

The appointment of controversial businessman Delyan Peevski, one of the party\u2019s biggest names, as head of Bulgaria\u2019s security agency in 2013 almost brought down the government after protests kicked off. A year later, he won a seat in the 2014 European Parliament election near the top of the MRF list, although he subsequently decided to give it up.<\/p>\n

French menace<\/h3>\n

Recent poachings from ALDE by rival groups include Portugal\u2019s Jos\u00e9 In\u00e1cio Faria, who defected to the center-right European People\u2019s Party, and Brian Crowley of Ireland\u2019s Fianna F\u00e1il, who moved to the ECR after the 2014 election.<\/p>\n

But the desire to protect its numbers can sometimes lead to contradictions in ALDE\u2019s professed pro-EU stance.<\/p>\n

Seeing a chance to shunt the ECR back into fourth position at the start of this year, Verhofstadt courted the 17-strong group of MEPs representing Italy\u2019s populist 5Star Movement<\/a>. He was forced to back down after the majority of his members revolted, citing the 5Stars\u2019 hostility to the euro as a red line.<\/p>\n

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Emmanuel Macron has so far declined to align his La R\u00e9publique en Marche with ALDE | Sylvain Lefevre\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Verhofstadt might have hoped that his political gang would have benefited from the rise of France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron. The French president\u2019s centrist, pro-European message should, on the face of it, have made him a natural political bedfellow.<\/p>\n

But Macron has so far declined to align his La R\u00e9publique en Marche<\/a> with ALDE. With the 2019 European election on the horizon, that leaves Verhofstadt trying to keep the peace among his troops while fending off advances from other political groups on the lookout for new recruits.<\/p>\n

The threat from Macron \u2014 who has indicated his desire to create a pan European centrist party and even poached ALDE MEP Sylvie Goulard to be his defense minister \u2014 is likely greater for ALDE than any other political group. Since his election, Macron has flirted with Ciudadanos, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and Luxembourg\u2019s Xavier Bettel \u2014 parties with 10 MEPs that currently belong to ALDE.<\/p>\n

With such loose ties holding them together, ALDE\u2019s members could be easy picking for a new Macron-inspired movement in the European Parliament. Despite his efforts to create a broad ideological church, that could leave Verhofstadt without much of a party to lead into the EU parliamentary election in 2019.<\/p>\n

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