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...change as some hope. The roots of the crisis go back to the founding of the government. In 2006, unable to secure the votes to rule alone or to hammer out a coalition with other mainstream parties, Jaroslaw invited two fringe political groupings - the nationalist Self-Defense Party, or Samoobrona, and the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families - to join the government in exchange for Cabinet posts. Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer who has been convicted of slander and assault, became Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister, while League of Polish Families leader Roman Giertych, the former head...
...third of their M.E.P. seats, bringing Howard's celebration to a quick end. UKIP's brand of fire-breathing Euro- hatred - they want Britain out of the E.U., period - was projected to show up in results from other countries too, including Belgium, Sweden and Poland, where the Samoobrona Party, which wants to renegotiate Poland's terms of entry into the E.U., was expected to take as many as 13 seats. According to one poll conducted for the European Parliament, Euro-skeptic M.E.P.s will constitute about a tenth of its membership, and possibly hold the balance of power on some issues...
...this way," he says. "It's the same people who filled their bathtubs with gasoline when prices were to rise under communism. Now they go and buy 30 kg of rice." Still, the panic is a political windfall for conservative parties who opposed enlargement. For example, Poland's radical Samoobrona (Self-Defense) party has surged in opinion polls from 17% approval in February to 29% in April. Whether accession's opponents can capitalize in the long run on price fears will depend on what happens in coming weeks. In the meantime, Eastern Europe has a few more shopping days until...
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