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As National Rally have dominated France’s legislative elections, its far-right allies have been building a new political bloc in the European parliament. And on Sunday Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ‘Patriots of Europe’ group gained enough followers to obtain recognition in the hemicycle. On Saturday, the Danish People’s Party and the Flemish nationalist pro-independence Vlaams Belang announced their decision to join, bringing Patriots for Europe to 23 MEPs, which is enough to meet the EU parliament’s threshold for formal recognition. Other parties involved include Austria’s far-right…