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Party chair Timo Soini moving The Finns towards becoming a mainstream party (Photo: Mikael Brunila)

The populist Finns, Cameron's new political bedfellows

As UK prime minister David Cameron's Conservatives set about reforming the anti-federalist European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) group in the European Parliament, the spotlight has fallen on their new allies.\n \nIn a bid to obtain the required 25 MEPs from seven member states, the group is enlarging to take on two deputies from Finland's populist Finns party.\n \n"The acceptance of the Finns, along with the Danish People's Party, into the ECR has been primarily seen as an important strat...

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Party chair Timo Soini moving The Finns towards becoming a mainstream party (Photo: Mikael Brunila)

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