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« on: April 24, 2017, 02:46:00 PM »

It seems to me that all the centrist parties are pro-EU, and a lot of the far-left and far-right parties are anti-EU. Why isn't there a centrist, anti-EU party and if there was would it be successful?
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 03:08:52 PM »

I think some of the agrarian parties in Scandinavia are softly Eurosceptic.

The Five Star Movement in Italy is self-declared as centrist (and definitely draws voters from across the political spectrum) and is very Eurosceptic.

The UK Liberal Party doesn't count; it's too irrelevant.
I thought a lot of those Scandinavian parties were pro-EU since they are members of ALDE but I'm not sure.
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 09:09:53 PM »

Well, being euroskeptical seems one of the features of a populist party nowadays, so by definition it will be difficult to find a party that's centrist and "anti-EU". Dutch CU is a non-populist and centrist euroskeptical party but I don't know whether their soft euroskepticism would truly qualify them as "anti-EU". I personally tend to see RRWPs such as DF and PVV as "centrist" economically but I guess that's not what the one who posed this question really means.
I guess by centrist I mean parties that aren't far-left or far right.
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