‘Unholy conservative alliance’ draws criticism

26th June 2009

With a certain amount of fanfare, Law and Justice joined hands with fellow conservatives from across Europe to trumpet the formation of the European parliament’s latest political bloc, and dismissed accusations that it might dwell in the margins of power.

Boasting 55 MEP drawn from seven countries the European Conservative and Reformists Group intends to take a deeply eurosceptic stance, and, said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Law and Justice (PiS) leader, battle bureaucracy and champion the status and equality of nation states.

This, PiS and their allies hope, should help put the brake on any federalist ambitions circulating in the myriad corridors of Brussels and Strasbourg, and bring benefits b ...