Far-right parties join Tories in rejecting common EU candidate

Europe's far-right parties aligned themselves with the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) and announced in March 2014 they would not present a common candidate for the European Parliament elections in May 2014.

However, these parties still intend to create a parliamentary group in Strasbourg after the May 2014 election, according to EurActiv on the 13 March 2014.

ESO: Background information: EU Conservatives call single candidate election campaigns a '1950-style vision' http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-conservatives-call-single-candidate-election-campaigns-a-1950-style-vision/

ESO: Background information: Le Pen launches plan to unite the far right http://www.europeansources.info/record/le-pen-launches-plan-to-unite-the-far-right/

ESO: Background information: EU elections: latest across Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-elections-latest-across-europe/

ESO: Background information: European Parliament: Election, May 2014 http://www.europeansources.info/record/european-parliament-election-may-2014/

Wikipedia: European Alliance for Freedom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Alliance_for_Freedom

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