Koblenz, Germany (CNN)Swelling music and angry rhetoric, straight from the Donald Trump inauguration playbook, were prominent Saturday as Europe’s nationalist parties gathered under the banner “Europe of Nations and Freedom” — their political bloc in the European Union parliament.
The big stars: France’s Marine Le Pen, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders and Germany’s Frauke Petry, each of them contesting elections this year. One large banner trumpeted “2017: The Year of the Patriots.”
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It may or may not become the so-called “Year of the Patriots,” but it will almost certainly be a tumultuous year in politics for Europe.
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