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In Europe, moderate conservatives seek to steal hard right’s thunder

Their surge in the polls is striking. And with just days until a major Europe-wide election, so is the message of alarm on editorial commentary pages: Far-right parties are on the march!

Yet the more critical shift – and the key to whether far-right policies on issues ranging from immigration to climate change will gain a stronger foothold – is happening on Europe’s political center ground.

Mainstream conservative parties across the 27-nation European Union, which are the European equivalent of America’s pre-Donald Trump Republicans, have increasingly been

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