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European elections: is the party over for the centre-right?

Financial Times
By Alex Barker

The political alliance that dominates Europe took shape on a cold March night in 1998, over dinner in a bungalow in western Germany.

Around Helmut Kohl's table were a gaggle of premiers and backroom fixers,

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