Nine European Countries Where Extreme Right-Wing Parties Are On The Rise

[pampango]

http://www.businessinsider.com/rise-of-far-right-populist-parties-can-derail-the-eu-2011-6

These days, Europe is not exactly the multicultural, quasi-socialist bastion that some Americans, both left and right, often imagine it to be.

Recent years have seen a rapid rise of European right-wing parties, many of which have won elections and taken power.

Even where they have not yet triumphed electorally, far-right parties have forced mainstream politicians like French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to echo their xenophobic and Euroskeptic rhetoric.

While they often differ on social and fiscal issues, they are united by a common antipathy—to say the least—towards immigrants and the European Union.

There's a link that leads to a capsule of each of the 9 countries. They are: France (National Front), the Netherlands (Freedom Party), Finland (True Finns), Italy (Northern League), Switzerland (Swiss Peoples Party), Denmark (Denmark Peoples Party), Austria (Freedom Party), Norway (Progress Party), and Sweden (Sweden Democrats).

[MouseFitzgerald]

1. Frightening stuff

[muntrv]

2. Half the posters to the article seem to love Hitler, without saying it directly.

[JonTheGreat]

3. I love him too...

Or at least when I get to fight him while playing Wolf3d on the computer. :)