Euro- union of the right
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It was a week o capitalist "international Salzburg, which she hac helped to organise, o:
European right-wins parties.
Her fellow Tories include:
the Christian Demo crats and Strauss' CSU fron West Germany, Spain:
Francoist Union of the Democratic Centre, led ts Adolfo Suarez, Chirac':
French Gaullists, the Portuguese Democratic Socia Centre Party (now coalition with the Socialist Party) and assorted right wingers from the rest Europe.
Thatcher The Italian Christian Democrats-no doubt out of diplomatic deference to the CP which keeps their minority government in office-declined the invitation saying that the whole thing seemed to them 'much too right wing'!
For others, however, not even Thatcher is right wing enough.
These were Giorgio Almirante, leader of the fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), Blas Pinar oi Spain's hard-line Francoist New Force (Fuerza Nueval and Pascal Gauchon leade:
of New Forces" group "Pary of the French These three fascist groups meeting in Rome on April 20 set up a "permanent entente" appealing to the "forces c: sanity" of the Europeacontinent to join them.
• Whatever may be ite differences between these two right wing alliances the: are similarly explicit abou: their view of the enemy.
For Thatcher it is "Marxism" whether this goes by that name or whether it s lurking inside Socialis: Parties.
For Almirante and i gang it is "Eurocommunism Again this has various guises and covers. Accordire to Blas Pinar "the immediate enemy. behind which communism hides, is the policy of insti. tutional break practised hs
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