UKIP, 5-Star welcome Polish radical to save EU voting bloc


  • World
  • Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014

United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage speaks to the media as he arrives at the Houses of Parliament in London October 13, 2014. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The UK Independence Party and Italy's 5-Star Movement formed an alliance in the European Parliament on Monday with a right-wing Polish libertarian in order to reconstitute a formal Eurosceptic bloc in the EU legislature.

Robert Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz is a member of the Congress of the New Right (KNP), whose leader has said women are too stupid to vote and doubts that Hitler knew of the Holocaust. His move makes up for the defection of a Latvian lawmaker last week that had triggered the formal dissolution of the Eurosceptic bloc.

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