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The lasting influence of Tony Blair
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The shape of three European governments could be decided by the performances of populist, anti-establishment or far-right parties in elections in the coming weeks, as the continent’s fractured political landscape continues to splinter.
A parliamentary poll in Slovakia, a country of five million people, on 30 September, could return to power a proto-populist, Robert Fico, who is stridently pro-Moscow.
In Poland, which votes in October, surveys suggest that hopes of forming a majority in the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) – self-proclaimed champions of the conservative, Catholic working class – may rest on
