The extreme right in the European parliament

The European parliament convenes today for its first constituent sitting. With an eye to the European mandates obtained by extreme right-wing parties, the left-liberal daily Népszabadság differentiates between the extreme right in Western and Eastern Europe: "European right-wing extremism will be present in the European Parliament. In fact this is rather bizarre because the majority of right-wing extremist parties are hostile to the idea of Europe. Added to that their fundamental principle, hatred, is by no means in conformity with Europe's values. ... You do hear the occasional anti-Semitic slogans from the extreme right in the West, but in fact these parties have a more pressing goal: the fight against Muslim immigration. However by extension this fight is also being waged against immigrants from the eastern half of the Union. ... The extreme right in the old member states of the EU are nationalistic and turned inward, but by no means neo-Nazis. In the eastern countries of the EU, by contrast, they're Nazis through and through. Their symbols, slogans and writings hail from the first half of the 20th century. ... The neo-fascists from the eastern EU countries are anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and minority haters."

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