EUobserver: The populist Finns, Cameron's new political bedfellows

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Muun muassa kiakkovierasjuhlien organisaattorina kunnostautunut toveri Mikael Brunila kirjoittaa Euobserverissä tuttuun tyyliinsä ECR ja Perussuomalaisten orastavasta yhteiselosta.

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"The acceptance of the Finns, along with the Danish People's Party, into the ECR has been primarily seen as an important strategic move by the British Conservatives to isolate Ukip in the European Parliament," says Jemima Repo, political scientist at the university of Helsinki.

"It means a stronger eurosceptic agenda for the ECR and the Conservatives, and it groups the Finns with a more traditional and respectable right, distancing them from a more far-right and xenophobic profile," she adds.

Of the two Finns' deputies Sampo Terho and Jussi Halla-aho, it is the latter who is the more controversial.

The original political home of Halla-aho is Suomen Sisu, an organisation that has been instrumental in popularising anti-immigration themes in Finland and has throughout its history displayed strong connections to Finnish neo-fascist intelligentsia.