Members of Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement have voted to form an alliance with UKIP’s Nigel Farage in the European Parliament.<br /><br />Seventy-eight percent of those who voted backed the Italian comedian’s anti-establishment party teaming up with the British eurosceptic outfit. <br /><br />The two parties will meet in Brussels on Tuesday.<br /><br />Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders and France’s Marine Le Pen want to form their own eurosceptic group.<br /><br />They have found potential allies from Austria, Belgium and Italy.<br /><br />But a parliamentary group needs at least 25 MEPs from seven different countries.<br /><br />Germany’s anti-euro Alternativ Fur Deutschland will sit with Britain’s Conservative Party, causing further friction between London and Berlin.<br /><br />The two countries disagree over who should run the European Commission.<br /><br />German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats sit in the centre-right European People’s Party, which won the most seats in May’s elections.<br /><br />MEPs argue this means their ‘top candidate’, Jean-Claude Juncker, should take over the reins of the EU executive.<br /><br />“Unfortunately we observe a dirty campaign against Mr Juncker and I think that this isn’t the way that we should proceed as democrats.”<br /><br />Forming a political group in the European Parliament provides MEPs with more clout…and more important, more financial resources.
