European Far Right Update #1

Going to be an update on the blog once a week on the far right with a few links and notes on what they are up to in Europe...

Ethnnos in Greece reports on the lack of investigations on the links between far right Golden Dawn and members of the Greek police force. (http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=22768&subid=2&pubid=63743076 - links in Greek thanks to Ephilant on Politicalworld for the translations) . Despite the lack of investigations there is a lot of claims (in the hundreds) of police brutality.

Meanwhile in France, Sarkozys party are deeply divided over the leadership for his former position as head of the party. Daily Mail (or wail?) reporting on the divisions in the party
leadership:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238744/Nicolas-Sarkozy-meets-French-PM-ditch-attempt-save-party-imploding.html

Would love nothing better than to see the French party of Sarko implode...

The Rise of the Far Right in Europe - Wolves in Sheeps Clothing?

With the recent surge seen in the far right in Europe, are they promising people something they can deliver on or are they going to fall flat? In the recent French elections, Marie Le Pen promised to look at the rights of workers and played the left wing card hoping to appeal to those whom might have otherwise voted for the left. Golden Dawn came to power in Greece with the promise to deal with the immigration issues that they have made out to be a bigger deal than it is . Golden Dawn saw their figures jump from .29% support to 6.7% or thereabouts on the back of playing the anti immigration card, they vowed to rid "Athens of the stench" of what is immigrants. In Finland the True Finns are surfing in on a tide of anti European sentiment and anti immgration policies. Couple all of this with well known antics of such parties in Ireland and the BNP in the UK and other far right parties in Europe and we may be setting ourselves up for a dangerous rift in society. Already some of these parties are well known to have violent links and links to neo nazism. Are we allowing these wolves to continually dress in sheeps clothing?

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Finns

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/06/far-right-threat-extremism

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9250885/Greek-immigrants-urge-parties-to-isolate-far-Right-Golden-Dawn.html
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