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Some changes in ECR, MEP's from Family Party, Denmark People Party, Finns Party and Slovakian parties (Nova, OLaNO) officially joined ECR.
Also I want to highlight that KNP from Poland is not going to join ECR, they are fiercely anti-EU and they call Law and Justice (they have 18 MEPs in ECR) "socialists" :P
No chances for KNP in ECR. _________________________________________________________________________________ Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat
And if the EP decides to pick a fight over whether Parliament or Council appoint the commission, then there is a good chance that the EP will win, further diminishing whatever little formal weight Cameron's opinions have to be given. If for no other reason then because the Council can't really afford a constitutional crisis right now.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Anyway, looks like ECR is pinching the small EFD parties or the small ones are abandoning ship. Either way, the current EFD looks like they will have a hard time reaching the seven countries limit, being squeezed between ECR and the possible Front National group. Then again Front National will not have an easy time forming a group either, in particular if they reject the outright fascists. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
"Racial and anti-Semitic European nationalist parties National Democratic Party of Germany, the British National Party, Greek Golden Dawn, Hungarian Jobbik and Bulgarian Атака are not permitted to join"
About EFD they now have only 4 parties so probably EFD will collapse soon. Even with KNP which is not so keen to join Farage (they have ambitions to form alternative alliance, I don't know how and why but I have heard such rumors). Also I don't see who else Le Pen can be "catched up" to her fraction. Order and Justice as far as I can read from AWPL page (Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania) don't have bad relations with AWPL, they together form current Lithuanian government so ECR have chance to take from post-EFD another party. Reformed Political Party from Netherlands probably will also join ECR after EFD collapse as they are part of European Christian Political Movement. I don't know how it will be with other, smaller parties but I don't think that EFD will survive neither Le Pen will form fraction. _________________________________________________________________________________ Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat
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