Europe's US-backed conservatives seek mainstream

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Europe's US-backed conservatives hope this is their moment to go mainstream

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Europe 's US -backed conservatives hope this is their moment to go mainstream.

CPAC, the US Conservative Political Action Conference , has been a big week in Europe with large gatherings in Poland and Hungary .

The timing is crucial, ahead of Poland 's presidential election run-off on Sunday , between a CPAC-backed nationalist and the liberal Mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski .

And there was bad news this week for Viktor Orban - the Hungarian fertility rate fell to 1.28 in April , almost as low as when he came to power in 2010 , despite 15 years of tax and home-building incentives to encourage couples to have more children. But as the chairs were packed away in the congress hall in Budapest on Friday evening , there was a mood of elation, eyes trained on the run-off in Poland ..