LONDON: French politics has been rocked to its foundations by the spectre of a rapprochement between its traditional conservative parties and the ultra-right-wing Front National of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Across Europe, mainstream conservatives will be watching this dance nervously over the coming weeks and months. For French conservatives are not alone in fearing that bumptious nationalist/anti-European movements are outflanking them on the right.
LONDON: French politics has been rocked to its foundations by the spectre of a rapprochement between its traditional conservative parties and the ultra-right-wing Front National of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Across Europe, mainstream conservatives will be watching this dance nervously over the coming weeks and months. For French conservatives are not alone in fearing that bumptious nationalist/anti-European movements are outflanking them on the right.