Time: Europe turns far-right


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5:09 pm - July 31st 2009

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This week’s Time Magazine has an extensive front-page feature by Catherine Mayer on the turn to the far-right in Europe.

The article looks at how the neo-fascists should be dealt with:

For those who believe that this would be a catastrophe, the urgent question is how best to contain the surge. Deny far-right leaders the oxygen of publicity? Tricky — they have a democratic mandate. Confront them? That risks casting them as martyrs, victims who tell unpalatable truths. Expose the racism that often underlies professions of patriotism? Well, yes, but that assumes voters choose far-right parties in ignorance of their views, rather than because they strike a chord. Steal their nationalist thunder by taking tough lines on issues such as immigration? This smacks of capitulation to the very ideas critics seek to defeat.

The article looks at four parties — the BNP, France’s Front National (FN), Hungary’s Jobbik and Geert Wilders’ Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom, PVV).

Geeert Wilders recently unveiled a fascistic ten point plan to save the west. In the UK Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion has always been a big supporter.

The Time magazine article goes on to ask:

Just how powerful might the far right become? Such parties are now in a position to influence European legislation, though most advocate withdrawal from the European Union. Addressing a Jobbik rally last year, the BNP’s Griffin invoked the memory of Hungary’s 1956 revolution, suppressed by Stalinist troops. “Where is the power hunger and the corruption of the Soviet kleptocracy now? … It is in Brussels,” he said. “The European Union is a threat to all the free peoples of Europe.”

Read it in full here.

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1. Claude

Plus of course, there’s the Tories leaving Merkel and Sarkozy’s parliamentary group to form an alliance with the homophobic Polish far-right. The press may be giving them an easy ride about it by playing it down, but it is more evidence of where the wind is blowing.

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