Firstly, that the defiantly pro-euro and pro-European Union technocrats have very definitely been defeated and secondly, that Italy is the only one of the financially troubled member nations that actually has the economic power to tell the EU where to go.
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More damaging still to the Tory cause was the squashing of any hope that last summer's ballot of party members, in which they voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the euro for at least two parliaments, would silence the pro-euro Tories in Parliament.
The breakaway Pro Euro Conservative Party fielded rival candidates against the Tories in the European elections.
The group is not affiliated to any political party, although several pro-Euro politicians have joined.
Opinion polls put pro-euro sentiment in Sweden and Denmark fairly stable at around 60%.
The National Farmers' Union's broadly pro-euro stance is out of kilter with most of its members, a survey says.
Grillo has railed against big business and the corruption of Italy's political establishment, and holds broadly euro-skeptical and pro-environmental positions.
He can count on support from pro-euro companies that will provide money for the campaign, and from many male white-collar workers.
He would have a better chance than most to unite the party's two main factions: its old-fashioned tax-and-spend populists and pro-euro modernisers.
But for the moment the unions remain firmly pro-Europe and pro-euro.
In Britain in Europe's report, the pro-euro group argue that the UK will lose inward investment and political influence unless it signs up to the single currency.
Before elections for the European Parliament in June, when it became clear that voters would punish a pro-euro line, it somehow became known that he was growing a little cooler.
According to an opinion poll on May 13th, Syriza would win 20.5% of the vote and come first in the June 17th election, just ahead of the pro-euro New Democracy (19.4%).
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Perhaps even more important, at least in the short-term, is Greece re-emerging as the primary risk-factor within the widening Euro-crisis, by there resounding rejection of the Euro-centric, pro-bailout incumbents in favor of anti-bailout parties.
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But his whole agenda is pro-Europe and pro-euro.
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But the Pasok left and its voters now co-exist with the former Eurocommunists in a fairly moderate, anti-austerity but essentially left social democratic, pro-Euro party - the Dem Left - which now has 19 seats.
While the pro-euro camp show every sign of taking on the iron discipline of Tony Blair's New Labour, the antis are riven by doctrinal disputes which will make it difficult to develop a single, coherent message.
He and other pro-euro Tories have been biting their tongues ever since William Hague, their party's leader, won a ballot of members last summer for a policy opposing membership of the single currency for at least two parliaments.
Douglas Alexander did not and would not say "we sceptics" but the shadow foreign secretary was clearly trying to protect Labour's flank from those who dislike the fact that the party was pro the euro and anti a referendum.
Some in the EU capital argue that other European governments, Germany in particular, should have done more to help the cash-strapped governments of the euro zone, through pro-growth programs that would have sweetened the bitter medicine of EU-backed reforms.
The Tories oppose joining at least until the end of the next parliament, and for once they are publicly united on this issue paradoxically, the launch of the breakaway pro-euro Conservative Party has made it harder for Tory euro-sympathisers to argue their case.
When Greece unexpectedly reached the last eight with a 1-0 win over Russia, a day before key elections which saw a narrow victory for pro-Euro party New Democracy, Greek newspapers were quick to link Friday's game with the country's economic turmoil and strained relations with Germany.
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He told me he would have a broad-based shadow cabinet which would include people who are pro the Euro and with the arrangements made for when we get to the referendum as to how they will be able to campaign for their beliefs, he will have a broad-based policy approach.
The evidence from Greece, which elected a pro-euro government in the midst of a deep depression, or the Netherlands, which re-elected a Liberal-led government last year, shows that voters may be angry but they aren't stupid: courageous leaders that can articulate tough choices and explain why change is necessary can still win elections.
With the three main parties all pro-EU and euro, it is hard to see how the True Finns could fit into a coalition.
There's nothing like living in France, to turn a loyal pro-European into a devout Euro-sceptic.
They note the broad welcome for his plan to add pro-growth measures to the euro zone's fiscal austerity.
After all, he has proclaimed that he is strongly pro-European, but that euro membership is conditional and not inevitable.
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