Chrysi Avgi

CasaPound demonstration. Photo: Pietro Chiocca. Released into the public domain.

The new fascists

ANALYSIS – CasaPound Italia has become one of the more successful organizations of the European far right by reframing fascist ideology, operating social welfare programmes and keeping other extremist groups at arm’s length. Is this a new […]

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Sympathizers of the Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson who speaks on Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm May 24, 2014. (Photo: Frankie Fouganthin / Wiki Commons. Under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0).

EU earthquake? Not quite

ANALYSIS: The European Elections were not the watershed victory for the far right that the media makes them out to be. Cas Mudde Media reports on far-right gains in the 2014 European elections […]

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Wins, losses for EU far right

ANALYSIS: A number of radical right-wing parties did make gains in the European parliamentary elections between 22-25 May. Some results are worrying. But let’s not lump together a wide assortment of unique parties. Øyvind […]

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Assad’s far-right Europe corps?

ANALYSIS: Should we worry about European right-wing extremists volunteering to fight on Assad’s side in Syria? Øyvind Strømmen Western intelligence services have repeatedly expressed worry about young Muslim Europeans who travel to Syria […]

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Greek rightists gunned down

Two men were killed and a third is fighting for his life after unknown assailants opened fire on them outside offices belonging to the extreme right-wing political party Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) in […]

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