Czech MEP removed from Patriots for Europe 

Czech MEP Nikola Bartůšek has been expelled from the right-wing political group Patriots for Europe (PfE) in the European Parliament for allegedly damaging the group’s reputation. Ondřej Knotek, head of the Czech delegation in PfE and an ANO MEP, confirmed this to the Czech News Agency on Tuesday but declined to provide further details. Bartůšek, elected to the European Parliament for the Czech populist party Přísaha (Oath) in 2024, confirmed the news, but refused to comment on why she will now sit as a non-attached MEP.

The Patriots for Europe, led by Jordan Bardella of France’s far-right National Rally, is the European Parliament’s third-largest political group with 84 members, including seven MEPs from the Czech ANO Party.