The first steps of the new Eurosceptic group in the European Parliament have been chaotic to say the least. Initially meant to be led by a British Tory, Geoffrey Van Orden or Timothy Kirkhope, the Pole Michal Kaminski finally took the head of it as he hadn't managed to be elected as vice-president of the extreme conservative group in the European Parliament. Michal Kaminski, a thirty-seven-year old issued from the Polish PiS, Law and Justice Party of the Kacsynski twins is a quietened radical who, in his younger days, took part in the far right party of the Polish renewal, Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski (NOP). The story shows the extent to which the new Eurosceptic group is a fragile one, not the least because only eight nationalities are represented in it, but above all because its members, apart from Euroscepticism, are united by very few tenuous links. In particular, the values of the PiS are quite opposite to those of the British Tories who are trully liberal. Finally, this episode is stressing the European issue as one of the open wounds of the Conservative party, which is in the position to win the next legislative elections taking place in less than a year and putting an end to the twelve-year reign of the new Labour. By founding his political Eurosceptic group, Cameron has showed that he has no ally amongst the European governments and that the Eurosceptics are mainly coming from the radical right. This, at the very least, is a political mistake made by someone who is aspiring to lead one of the main European powers. Full post on Coulisses de Bruxelles, UE here.