At the beginning of May, Teresa Ribera sounded the alarm over the future of the EU, warning that war, discord, disinformation, social media manipulation and the increasing normalisation of the far right had put the European project at risk of “an implosion”.
It did not help centrist political unity, Spain’s environment minister added, that some people – namely the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen – were refusing to rule out working with rightwing and far-right nationalists.
