Far Right Gains in European Elections
In the last post, I highlighted how the British far right finally won representation in the European Parliament. Since the mid-1980s and 1990s, far right-wing parties in continental Europe under charismatic leaders such as Heinz-Christian Strache (Austria - top left), Jean-Marie Le Pen (France - top right), and Geert Wilders (Netherlands - bottom left) have been far more successful in European elections than their British counterparts. Check out the results for the far right in the recent European elections:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/06/08/europe-s-far-right-make-gains.aspx
My main area of specialisation revolves around far right-wing political movements and parties, and their relationship to the history of fascism. Why then is the far right doing so well? And is the far right akin to historical fascism? In my next posting, I will try to answer these difficult questions.
Tamir Bar-On
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