Cheap plastic chairs, bland filter coffee: at the National Conservative conference in Brussels, everything went a little differently than planned. Then it should also be dissolved.
“We are the lone wolves who defy the EU’s totalitarian tactics!” says Saurabh Sharma. It’s supposed to sound combative. Sharma, the man from the ultra-conservative Edmund Burke Foundation, speaks this sentence on the hastily improvised stage of the Claridge event hall in Brussels .
However, the Wolf’s Den, where Europe’s national conservatives met on Tuesday, is a rather inconspicuous building, next to fast food shops and an Arab cultural center. There’s security at the Claridge’s door. The men point to the narrow entrance next to the shop window with the shutters down.
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Source: Stern

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