With the climate agenda taking a back seat after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine hit the economy and changed priorities, the European Greens arrived in Lisbon with a message, presented at an event attended by several personalities: they declared the European People's Party of Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber to be enemy number one.
Faced with the dilemma of continuing to ally with the centre-right group, even if it means making concessions whenever it allies with far-right groups, or distancing themselves, the Greens chose the first option.
