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Farage wraps up his European Parliament group faster than Le Pen…thanks to a Front National defector

June 19, 2014

Nigel Farage has managed to form a new Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group in the European Parliament. The group comprises 48 MEPs from seven EU member states. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats and the Latvian Farmers’ Union both joined for…

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Farage, Five Star Movement, Front National, Grillo, Korwin-Mikke, Le Pen, UKIP, wilders

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Farage suffers another defection: can he still put together a group in the European Parliament?

June 17, 2014

With the deadline for the registration of European Parliament political groups set to expire early next week (the European Parliament’s equivalent of a transfer window), even the moves of individual MEPs can be decisive.Nigel Farage suffered an unexpec…

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AEF, ECR, EFD, european parliament, Farage, Five Star Movement, Grillo, Le Pen, UKIP, wilders

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Grillo joins Farage, but UKIP’s group in the European Parliament is not a done deal yet

June 13, 2014

Now it’s official: Italy’s anti-establishment Five-Star Movement will try to form an alliance with UKIP in the new European Parliament. Beppe Grillo launched an online survey of Five-Star members and activists on his blog yesterday, and 78% of votes we…

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EP2014, european parliament, Farage, Five Star Movement, Front National, Grillo, italy, Le Pen, UK;, UKIP

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Would it not be easier if ‘Brussels’ simply dissolved the people and elected another?

April 28, 2014

In less than a month’s time voters across the EU (that is those who decide to vote) will head to the polls to elect the new European Parliament. Ahead of the elections there has been a lot of speculation about the surge in support for a range of p…

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anti-austerity, Beppe Grillo, EP elections, EP2014, guy verhofstadt, juncker, Le Pen, Martin Schulz, people power, UKIP

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Hollande expected to announce cabinet reshuffle after local election ‘punishment’

March 31, 2014

If you want to get a sense of how badly the latest French local elections went for President François Hollande, have a look at today’s front page of left-leaning French daily Libération: The headline means ‘The punishment’, and it summarises the…

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Ayrault, eurozone, eurozone crisis, France, French local elections, Front National, Hollande, Le Pen, Municipales 2014, Valls

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