Mariana Mortágua, a bloc MEP, went to the gallery to speak at the standing committee, the body that replaces the plenary of the Assembly of the Republic during the holiday period, and expressed her “great concern” at the proposal for the composition of the European Commission, announced by the German President, Ursula von der Leyen.


Von der Leyen, said that the Commission’s proposal to “protect our way of life in Europe” was a “hard line of the European extreme right”, with the influence of Viktor Orban’s supporters, who are gaining power in the committee.


It is “wrong,” Mortágua said, given that “Europe is neither under threat nor shares a single way of life” and “worrying” because “it is a question of recovering old expressions of European xenophobic movements, in the best style of Marine le Pen,” the French leader of the extreme right.


It is also “ironic” and “worrying” that one of the proposed commissioners is the Latvian Valdis Dombrovskis, who, she recalled, “defended sanctions against Portugal” and “losing funds” for “not applying enough austerity” during the years of the “troika” intervention (2011-2014).