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Italy's Five Star Movement wants to join UKip group
By EUobserver
An online referendum held Thursday within Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement found a majority favours an alliance with UKip in the EP. Out of almost 30,000 voters, over 23,000 said the 17 MEPs should join UKip, 3,500 wanted them to stay non-affiliated and 2,900 to join the anti-federalist ECR.