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“A new anti-federalist group, made up of David Cameron’s British Conservatives, the Czech Civic Democratic Party (ODS) led by former Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek and the Law and Justice Party (PiS) of former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczyński, was constituted on 30 May in Warsaw.
The new political group is expected to undermine the mainstream centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), which until now had widely been expected to win the European elections, scheduled for 4-7 June.
Up to 60 MEPs from the EPP-ED group could join the new formation in the next European Parliament, which will emerge from the elections.
As a consequence, the EPP may no longer be the biggest political group in the Parliament, handing the reigns to the Party of European Socialists (see ‘Background’). ”