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Far-right threat exaggerated despite hysteria of some media
Is the far-right making a comeback? You might think so reading some of the headlines this week. “Behind the migrant row, Europe keeps shifting to the far-right,” warns Time magazine. “Finland leads rise of the far-right in Europe,” according to The Daily Telegraph.
The Irish Times went with the same theme, editorialising, “As similar nationalist parties have done recently...
Marine Le Pen's National Front performs well in local elections
Polls have shown Marine Le Pen could beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of next year's presidential election.
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front party was predicted to have made significant progress in the first round of local elections in France, while Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party fared badly.
The French local elections, for part of the cantons in the country’s 100...
Dutch minority government set to form with far-right backing
A campaign poster for Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party
One of the most conservative Dutch governments ever was in the offing Sunday, with the conservative-liberal election winners of the VVD party agreeing on a minority coalition with the centre-right Christian Democrats and backed on a case-by-case basis by the far-right anti-Islam Freedom Party of Geert Wilders.
After almost two months...
Rise of the National Front as Sarkozy faces drubbing in French regional elections
On the rise: National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen saw his party win almost 12 per cent of the vote in French regional elections
Nicolas Sarkozy has received a drubbing in French regional elections which saw the re-emergence of the far-Right National Front.
The president’s ruling UMP party polled 26 per cent in the first round of voting and the Socialists almost 30 per cent.
But Jean Marie...
Majour Nationalist Union: FPO + BZO became Austria's Largest Political Party
FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache (Right) and Carinthian BZOe chairman Uwe Scheuch (Left)
Strache and Scheuch announced a merger of their parties.
Austrian Federal Party (FPO) leader Heinz-Christian Strache and Carinthian BZO chairman Uwe Scheuch shake hands at a press conference to announce the joining together of the Carinthian BZO and Austrian FPO, in Vienna, Austria on December 16, 2009. The...
Hungary Court Bans Hungarian Guard
The far-right Hungarian Guard, a radical nationalist organisation, must be dissolved because in the past its marches have fuelled ethnic tensions and led to a disruption of public order, a Hungarian court ruled on Thursday.
Politicians, human rights activists and Gypsy rights activists have criticised the Guard for staging intimidating marches nationwide to protest against the spread of petty crime...
European Far-Right could explode this June!
Picture Right: Meet Krisztina Morvai, the sexy blond-haired leader of the Hungarian right-wing. The media attacks against her have been especially vile. Prompting Morvai, who is a lawyer, to threaten media outlets with defamation lawsuits. “Don’t think you can keep doing this forever.”
June 4th-7th could go down in history as the rise of the new European right-wing. The European Parliament is...