Italy’s Five Star Movement
(M5S), an anti-establishment party, has broken its ties with the UK
Independence Party (UKIP) in favor of joining a pro-EU free market
group in Brussels.
M5S members backed founder Beppe
Grillo’s call and voted overwhelming to leave Europe of Freedom and
Democracy (EFD), the anti-EU political group in the European
Parliament of which UKIP is a member.
Almost 80 percent of M5S’ 40,000
members voted in favor of severing ties with UKIP and other
Euroskeptic parties in a move some believe is motivated more by
pragmatism than ideals.
The pro-EU group, Alliance of
Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), will vote on Tuesday night
whether to welcome the Italian party.
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