May Contain Nuts’? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives' New Group in the European Parliament

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ID10357826
AutoresTim Bale (0000-0001-5917-1312, Institute of Contemporary History, autor de correspondencia), Sean Hanley (0000-0002-5737-7576, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies), Aleks Szczerbiak (0000-0003-4389-9557, Sussex County Community College)
Año2010
Volumen81
Número1
Páginas85-98
Fecha de publicación2010-02-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Political Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-3179 • E-ISSN: 1467-923X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-923x.2009.02067.x
OpenAlexW2020637249
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

The British Conservative Party's decision to leave the European Peoples' Party‐European Democrats (EPP‐ED) group in the European Parliament and establish a new formation—the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)—has attracted criticism, much of it focused on the supposedly extremist politics and character of the partners with which the Conservatives have chosen to work. In fact, while those parties which have joined the Conservatives in the new group are for the most part socially conservative, they are less extreme and more pragmatic than their media caricatures suggest. Moreover, such caricatures obscure some interesting incompatibilities within the new group as a whole and between some of its Central and East European members and the Conservatives, not least with regard to their foreign policy preoccupations and their by no means wholly hostile attitude to the European integration project

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