After a frantic day of deal making and the first truly competitive race for the presidency of the European Parliament in years, Antonio Tajani can now get down to business.<br /><br /> However, the Italian is faced with a fair few challenges with regards to the different political forces at work.<br /><br /> He said he aims “to build bridges bridges with everybody”, although how easy that will be to do amid warring factions is hard to see.<br /><br /> The biggest bridge was the one that secured his victory – the new coalition between the European People’s Party (EPP) and the liberal ALDE – although many right wing politicians are concerned that such an affiliation could impede EU reform. <br /><br /> However, one of the vice presidents of the European Parliament Alexander Graf Lambsdorff said: “We have a very good political agreement with the EPP concerning the future reforms of the EU, concerning the better development of the euro-zone governance and also a much stronger involvement of the EU parliament in the Brexit negotiations”<br /><br /> Tajani is caught in between a number of political orientations. <br /><br /> Warring factions like the pro-European liberals and the conservative eurosceptics, or the german austerity supporters and the Italian MEPs, threaten to disrupt his tenure as president.<br />
