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Different EU centre-right parties/groups

LMBRD

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I was thinking about different alignments in the EU centre and right.

The first would stem from christian democratic and liberal conservative parties forming two separate parties/groups; the latter group would include conservative liberal parties aswell, moving TTL liberal group equivalent to the left and reducing it to social liberals and classical liberals. Agrarians/green conservatives with more interventionist positions on economic matters may join the christian democratic group. This scenario would definitely stengthen social democrats in Europe. For this to happen, I think it would be crucial not to have an ecumenic, ideologically pretty broad party like CDU to form and Germany consequently retaining a party system more similar to the one of Weimar Republic. A bigger Italian Liberal Party being more successfull at attracting some of the more economically liberal Christian Democracy electorate and France retaining a party system more similar to the one of the Fourth Republic would help too.

Another scenario with a more recent PoD might involve the creation of a centre/centre-right counterpart to the Green-EFA group made of agrarians (Scandinavian Centre parties, Polish People's Party, Baltic agrarians), green liberals, green conservatives (ÖDP) and centre/centre-right regionalists and nationalists (CiU/PDeCAT, PNV, N-VA, maybe even a different Northern League in favour of "Europe of Regions") that can be still part of EFA party while joining another group; parties like Freie Wähler or Czech STAN may fit in aswell. It would probably fight for having the minimum amount of seats to form a group.

What do you think about these scenarios? Do you have suggestions for alternative party/group systems in the EU?
 
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