European elections: Keeping Eta out of the EU Parliament

One of the Spanish lists of candidates for the European elections is under examination to determine whether it should be banned owing to its closeness to terrorist organisation Eta. The conservative online paper Libertad Digital warns: "Time will tell whether the evidence is damning enough to justify a ban of the list. We should however have no doubt that Eta has every intention of retaining the political and financial means that its presence in the institutions has unfortunately secured it ever since the new political parties act came into effect. Several new Eta documents prove this. … However sources of the public prosecutor's office have revealed that Eta and its allies are acting in a way that makes it more and more difficult to ban their lists because they apply increasingly sophisticated and complex systems."

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