A number of European countries are seeing a renaissance of far right movements. While those in the East espouse Fascist ideologies, the Western brands target multiculturalism and Islam in particular. Right-wing populism is going from strength to strength in Europe. That's nothing new in the East: the genuinely pro-Fascist parties always do well in Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. Heirs to the jingoistic ideologies of the 1930s, they champion an ethnic-religious national identity, reviving old territorial disputes and the perennial issue of ethnic minorities. In Hungary, the general elections on 10 April should deliver victory to the big conservative nationalist party Fidesz, but also confirm the breakthrough of Jobbik, an anti-Semitic, xenophobic party that now boasts three MEPs of its own. In Slovakia, the radically nationalist National Slovak Party (SNS) is likely to stand its ground in a coalition government after the 12 June parliamentary elections. Against multicultural society and Islam Here in the West, right-wing extremism has been thriving since its facelift. "We're seeing a big renewal of identity-based rightisms, a new generation of radical right-wing parties," sums up Jean-Yves Camus, a researcher at IRIS (l'Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques). The leaders of these parties manage to avoid being branded "extremists" and remain on the edge of what democratic elements of society and the law consider a yellow line. These "right-wing populists", like their left-wing counterparts, prefer direct to representative democracy, denouncing elites who they say are out of touch with reality, self-propagating, corrupted by cosmopolitanism and globalisation.
A number of European countries are seeing a renaissance of far right movements. While those in the East espouse Fascist ideologies, the Western brands target multiculturalism and Islam in particular.
Right-wing populism is going from strength to strength in Europe. That's nothing new in the East: the genuinely pro-Fascist parties always do well in Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. Heirs to the jingoistic ideologies of the 1930s, they champion an ethnic-religious national identity, reviving old territorial disputes and the perennial issue of ethnic minorities.
In Hungary, the general elections on 10 April should deliver victory to the big conservative nationalist party Fidesz, but also confirm the breakthrough of Jobbik, an anti-Semitic, xenophobic party that now boasts three MEPs of its own. In Slovakia, the radically nationalist National Slovak Party (SNS) is likely to stand its ground in a coalition government after the 12 June parliamentary elections.
Against multicultural society and Islam
Here in the West, right-wing extremism has been thriving since its facelift. "We're seeing a big renewal of identity-based rightisms, a new generation of radical right-wing parties," sums up Jean-Yves Camus, a researcher at IRIS (l'Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques). The leaders of these parties manage to avoid being branded "extremists" and remain on the edge of what democratic elements of society and the law consider a yellow line. These "right-wing populists", like their left-wing counterparts, prefer direct to representative democracy, denouncing elites who they say are out of touch with reality, self-propagating, corrupted by cosmopolitanism and globalisation.
Nice photo on that page.
in the UK we've had both NuLab and the tories speaking in far-right code, that's not to mention the UK Independence party who are, in not racists, then the next worst thing. keep to the Fen Causeway
That's stretching it a bit... there have been elections in both Romania and Hungary when the far-right failed the 5% margin, and the numbers of Slovakia's SNS fluctuated strongly, too. And the double-digits Hungary's Jobbik will get in three weeks is unprecedented. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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All these kids are American high school students. They were the majority of the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, which, through a national contest, identifies and honors the top math and science high school students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems. The awards dinner was Tuesday, and, as you can see from the above list, most finalists hailed from immigrant families, largely from Asia.
And besides - so what?
