Civic Democrats form new European Parliament bloc with British Conservatives

The centre-right Civic Democrats have formed a new ‘anti-federalist’ European Parliament bloc with the British Conservatives and Poland’s Law and Justice Party, it was announced on Monday. The new European Conservatives and Reformists Group includes 55 MEPs from eight European member states. Civic Democrat MEP Jan Zahradíl said that he was ‘very happy’ that years’ worth of negotiations had come to a successful conclusion on Monday. The Civic Democrats and British Conservatives both left the European People’s Party, previously the biggest bloc in the European Parliament, to found the new European Conservatives and Reformists Group.