Without Eastern Europe, this whole thing would be reduced to the old trite British insularity.
As I understand, the right/nationalists party in Eastern Europe that constitute AECR are basically descendants of the third tier of Communist Party apparatchiks who jumped the ship and rode on the wave of populist sentiments. Their main support base is provincial petite bourgeoisie and people who feel "left behind" by the left and centrist parties. Their support in the cities and among young people and the intelligentsia is not very large. Based on this, I do not think they will become a major power player.
Wojtek
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:32 AM, nathan tankus
<somekindofheterodox at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Why?
>
> Carrol "
>
> In Europe many nominally left ( and "communist") parties are part of
> imposing austerity. As such, Many may potentially gravitate to the a
> right wing group that takes an anti-euro stance. As the situation
> develops it is possible that an anti-euro right wing cross-border
> organization would become a big political player. They have such an
> organization. they are affiliated with the Alliance of European
> Conservatives and Reformists.They already have a bunch of politicians
> (51) in the European Parliament and two heads of state (cameron in
> britian and the czech republic).
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_European_Conservatives_and_Reformists
>
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