Sanader focused his efforts on transforming the HDZ into a modern pro-European right-of-center party.
So the Eurosceptics have won, and yet they still want a referendum despite the vast majority of the British electorate having voted for pro-European parties?
It is a decidedly pro-European party.
It drew pro-European centrist parties from the European People's Party to form a new centrist multinational bloc.
But Europe, so central to Lib Dem self-esteem as the "civilised" pro-European party, threatens to split the coalition.
The most pro-European party in Britain managed to draw attention from its two rivals, for all the wrong reasons.
Democracy Is Freedom was a pro-European centrist party, with a strong support among Catholics, especially progressive ones.
The FDP describes itself as the pro-European party, although the minority national liberal faction is soft eurosceptic.
The responsibility for securing a successful outcome to the second referendum rests with Ireland's pro-European parties and social partners.
That is hardly the action of a pro-European party.