Despite their optimism throughout the election campaign, the candidates in the centrist-liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament are well aware not only of the polls, which have been predicting them losing seats for months, but also of the internal tensions rekindled by the expulsion threat facing the Dutch VVD party following its alliance with the far-right PVV party in the Netherlands.
The day after the European elections, on 10 June, the Renew Europe group is due to vote on...