The Belgian far right

The editorialist Maurice Ulrich notes that Vlaams Belang has again progressed with the latest municipal elections in Belgium. "This result demonstrates the gravity of the political crisis that is striking Europe today. Belgium is not an isolated case, far from it. .. The European map of the populist right-wing, whatever their minor differences, places them above 10% in Norway, Denmark, Austria, Holland and Northern Italy. Above 20% in Switzerland. In most cases it is mixed up with the far-right. Eastern Europe is no exception. ... It is the absence of perspectives, of real alternatives to the politics in practice, the impression that left and right are alike, that make it easy for demagogues, feed the far-right, populism and hatred in France as in Belgium, as in Europe."

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