Right-wing forces score victory everywhere

The left-liberal daily La Repubblica comments on the transformation of the political panorama in Europe: "The moderate Right has paradoxically been able to land a victory on two fronts: where it is in government, for example in France, Italy and Germany, the message of a calm force that is able to soothe the fears of voters has won the day. And where it is in opposition, like in Spain and the UK, it won the protest votes of those who blame the government for the economic crisis. … The success of the right-wing extremists and opponents of Europea in Holland, the UK and Austria … is the other side of the coin. Here the fear of social upheaval … turned into anger, hostility and the desperate demand for a moral and ethnic 'order'. And the way this type of xenophobic and racist delirium often goes hand in hand with a deep hostility towards the European project, which in many cases is the only effective protection against ultra-nationalist and anti-democratic tendencies, should give us food for thought."

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