Nicolas Schmit, the lead candidate for the Party of European Socialists (PES), speaks to FRANCE 24 about the dangers, as he sees them, of a potential alliance between the right and the far right. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called for Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to work together – while the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) is keeping a door open to Meloni.
Also in this edition, FRANCE 24's Sophie Samaille and Luke Brown look at efforts to make young people more interested in the EU elections.
Our ENTR segment profiles a teenage German first-time voter, and our country report also comes from Germany; Anne Mailliet and Nick Holdsworth look at the once buoyant German Greens – now facing stiff competition.