Part 2 -- Far-right groups in Greece
In Part 1 of this dispatch we described recent visits of far-right politicians to the Turkish-Greek border. But also “pre-political” proponents have been instrumentalizing the current humanitarian crisis in Greece for their purposes. Since early March three groups of far-right and neo-Nazi sympathizers...
While political analysts mostly focused on the refugee crisis as a major accelerator of the current far-right resurgence in Europe, much less attention has been paid to the (re)formation of an ultraconservative axis that, in 2013, appeared under the name “Agenda Europe.”
In his detailed report on the Agenda Europe...
Project 2025 bills itself as a comprehensive plan to undo decades of social progress - in its own words, to “dismantle the administrative state” and “return self-governance to the American people.” Democrats have jumped into using it and its connections to the Trump agenda and former staff as a reason to rally behind Joe Biden...
The head of
Rassemblement National (RN)—formerly known as Front National—Marine Le Pen (MLP) announced during her New
Year's greetings to the press on January 16, 2020, that she would be a candidate
in the 2022 presidential election. "One can’t improvise oneself as
president, one prepares for it" explained Marine Le Pen, in her
incessant...
Will Marion Maréchal (MM), who announced her premature retirement from politics three years ago at age 27, return to the forefront? Having since founded her far-right “metapolitical school,” the Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences (ISSEP) in Lyon, MM looks to be far from done with her political...
Yarvin is a cheerleader for “neocameralism,” a system where states operate like corporations, prioritizing efficiency and governance by technocrats or capable leaders rather than elected officials
Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed...
As the Trump administration openly threatens historic American allies in Europe, weighs in on German elections in favor of the far-right, and pushes the idea of MEGA—Make Europe Great Again—it’s becoming increasingly clear that the relationships and dynamic between the U.S. and Western Europe is changing at a scale we haven’t seen in almost a century...
The recent assassination of the Christian democrat Walter Lübcke,
president of the Kassel governmental district, by right-wing extremists, marks
the first murder of a politician in Germany in over half a century. It comes at
a time in which there is a significant surge of white supremacist and neo-Nazi
groups in Germany and...
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With the highest voter turnout in two decades (50.5%), the recently held European parliamentary elections were clearly viewed with special importance by Europe’s citizens. The outcome was marked by considerable losses of the center factions in the European...
On October 7, after a five-year trial, the leadership of the fascist Golden Dawn (GD) party of Greece was found guilty of criminal actions and the party itself was deemed a “criminal organization.” Fifty-one of the sixty-nine accused received prison terms based on their crimes. It was the longest...
