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Last time they tried this it turned out to be funny.

The funny is already there:

Competing visions of national supremacy have in the past presented a difficult hurdle for forming a far-right group in the parliament. [...]

Notably, in the new grouping there is no representation from the Greater Romania Party, Ataka, from Bulgaria's rightist extremists or from the Slovak National Party.

"We will not participate in any alliance with any party that is chauvinist towards ethnic Hungarians," said Mr Balczo, "and the Romanians and the Slovaks are very, very strongly against ethnic Hungarians."


Parties that thrive on ethnic nationalism and 'greater nation' concepts working together can hardly work out.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Oct 26th, 2009 at 07:10:13 PM EST
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As I argued earlier this year, bilateral hates won't prevent the coalescing of a subset -- which happened right now. (And, Godwyn be damned, this happened when the Axis powers coalesced, too -- which involved mutually hostile Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, BTW...)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Oct 26th, 2009 at 07:38:43 PM EST
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So we're seeing the reconstitution of the Austro-Hungarian empire with Jobbik and the FPÖ?

WWII comparisons are often of limited value. Nations coalescing in the struggle between two regional hegemons is to be expected, especially if those who stay neutral (Poland, Finland, the Baltics, Yugoslavia) get invaded by either of the two hegemons, or both.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Oct 26th, 2009 at 08:48:48 PM EST
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The core axis seems to be Jobbik-BNP-FN, with BNP curiously at the center of the network. (They also brought in Fiamma Tricolore.) FPÖ had some relationship with the previous 'market leader' on the Hungarian far-right, MIÉP, but not with Jobbik; so it will indeed be interesting to watch how the Austro-Hungarian empire can reconstitute between them (for morbid values of "interesting").

I recall that Vlaams Belang doesn't want to associate with this bunch; now I wonder if the Walloon FN has anything to do with it: what's the relation between the two?

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Oct 27th, 2009 at 02:55:48 AM EST
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The parties are ideologically opposed insofar as FN strongly supports Belgian nationalism whereas Vlaams Belang is for Flemish separation from Belgium, but I don't know what the practical relations are. I'd guess they included the FN because they couldn't get Vlaams Belang on board, rather than FN causing the Vlaams Belang to stay out.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Tue Oct 27th, 2009 at 04:00:48 AM EST
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Isn't the Wallon FN in good relations with the French FN?

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by DoDo on Tue Oct 27th, 2009 at 07:03:04 AM EST
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