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Article: Tories in secret alliance talks with neo-fascists
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 7, 1999
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BRITISH TORIES have had secret talks with Italian neo-fascists to
form an alliance in the European Parliament after Thursday's
election.
The Europe leader of the Alleanza Nazionale, successor party to
Mussolini's fascists, told The Independent she believed the
Conservatives would join them in a new coalition in Strasbourg.
Christiana Muscardini MEP said she had had talks in London with Tory
MPs who want to break away from "federalist" Christian Democrats in
the parliament. Gianfranco Fini, her party president, also attended
the talks.
The Conservatives would team up with the French Gaullists, the
late Sir James Goldsmith's French anti-federalist party, the Alleanza
Nazionale, Portuguese MEPs ...