In the run-up to the European elections, the competing national parties publish their ‘programmes’. At EU level, the European political parties or families agree on a general text, a ‘manifesto’, which sums up their political ambitions for the forthcoming parliamentary term and is meant as a kind of guide for voters, then the MEPs. Taking a comparative look at these documents is time well spent.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR group at the EP) have simply adopted the...