Right-wing populism en vogue

Politicians blame foreigners for everything when Europe is in crisis, writes the left-leaning daily Dnevnik with an eye to the success of right-wing populists in Sweden and elsewhere: "This applies to poor countries as well as rich. Only last year it was fashionable to look down one's nose at Switzerland after a referendum banned the construction of minarets there. ... Very interesting. Twenty percent of those living in Switzerland are immigrants. Switzerland, which does not belong to the EU, still seems liberal towards foreigners. In Italy, which has built up a modern political system on xenophobia, only six percent of the population are foreigners. In Britain it's just ten percent. In Sweden, the most recent country to have discovered this trend, nine percent of the population are of non-Scandinavian origin. Whenever the continent is in crisis, people blame and systematically lash out at foreigners. They're a handy target because there are so few of them."

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