Europeans and the American tea party

The World

Some conservative circles in Europe are looking to the American Tea Party movement for inspiration and with some envy. From Italy to Spain right wing groups openly admire its recent grassroots successes and they’re trying to take a page or two from the Americans for their own playbooks. But the European right and the American right don’t always see eye to eye, making a full-fledged European Tea Party a distant possibility � for now. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports.

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