EUobserver: Across Europe, the far right is on the march, claiming increased numbers of seats in ten different member states. However, in Belgium, France and Poland, the far right saw some significant losses as well.
In total, the far right is up eight seats on the 2004 European elections.
In Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and the UK, the far right made moderate to significant advances.
However, the extreme right saw sharp declines in Belgium, and France, and were completely wiped out in Poland.
“The far right growth is a really bad sign, and this is clearly linked to the economic crash,” Gerry Gable, the editor of Searchlight, a long-standing anti-fascist monthly magazine out of the UK, where the British National Party elected its first-ever MEP, told EUobserver.
“This is the entirely predictable result of the social fall-out of the financial crisis,” he added. “It’s a particularly worrying trend, especially in Austria and the Netherlands.”
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