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« on: May 31, 2015, 12:29:38 PM » |
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This is a deeply weird thread, as are all threads about the European 'Parliament'* started by Americans. Political groups in the European 'Parliament' are just technical groups who agree on just enough topics (or who have just enough shared history) to combine in order to qualify for committee posts, expenses and so on. They are not noble ventures of ideological purity.
*Although in some respects it is truer to the original meaning of the word than most Parliaments, with the Old French word parlement roughly translating as 'talking shop'.
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