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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10239
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/racism

PES and EPP disagree on how to tackle xenophobic parties

Brussels, 19/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - The Party of European Socialists (PES) and the European People's Party (EPP) have fallen out over how to react to xenophobic and racist parties. The Socialists have just adopted guidelines on how to tackle the rise of the extreme right in Europe. PES leader Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark, has called on all European political groups to sign up to the principles contained in these guidelines. He was critical of moves made by...

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