Reducing the size of government is conservative policy in any country?
yitbos
There are no euro-conservatives as we understand conservatism in the USA. I have never heard of either Berlusconi (a self-avowed apologist for fascists/fascism) or Sarkozy (an unrepentant Europhile) aiming to reduce size of government, at least significantly. Support for the European Union can never be defined as supporting reduction of the size of government, certainly, since by definition it is support for increasing the size of the central government in Brussels.