/ world today news/ Under the influence of recent events in the Old World, the ultra-right is raising its head
“European Union? “Far Right” – under such an eloquent title, the Italian portal L’Antidiplomatico published an article by Giacomo Marchetti, dedicated to the analysis of the increasingly noticeable political shift to the right.
„Twenty-three years after the “shock” caused by the entry into government of Jörg Haider’s nationalist Austrian Freedom Party in Vienna, writes Marchetti, “the political center of gravity of continental leaders has shifted significantly to the right.”
According to him, in Europe there is now a rapprochement between the conservatives and the extreme right. After all, this “it could affect the European Union elections that will be held next year. This is not just about “electoral convergence”, but about new political fields in different families of continental conservatives, which is the ultimate consequence of the nature of the European Union and its dominant oligarchies, which behave more and more belligerently, practicing racism, ecocide and an attack on the lower classes.”
As examples of such a shift to the right, the paper cites the government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy, the Sweden Democrats, an ultra-right party with a neo-Nazi past that is part of the government led by Ulf Kristerson.
In Helsinki, nationalists from the True Finns party agreed with two conservative parties to create the most right-wing executive in the country’s post-World War II history.
In Spain, the nationalist Vox and the People’s Party are striking various agreements at the local level, which could be a prelude to building a coalition at the national level after the July 23 snap general election.
The latest striking example of this trend is the remarkable electoral success of New Democracy in Greece in last Sunday’s elections. This success guaranteed her an absolute majority in the parliament, and the far-right “Spartans”, with the support of the neo-fascists, overcame the 3% barrier and entered the parliament of Greece for the first time.
In this series of events is the election of a member of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AFD) in the “Landrat”, a territorial administration that unites various municipalities. Robert Sesselmann will govern the Sonneberg district in the state of Thuringia in the former East Germany.
„This is the first milestone of local self-government for the German far-right ten years after the founding of their party.” notes L’Antidiplomatico, noting that such a process will continue irreversibly.
At the same time, there is a process of rapprochement between the conservative right-wing parties and the far-right and even the radicals. The Dutch political scientist Cass Mude in an interview with Le Monde newspaper in February of this year talked about the process of “hybridization” between the right and the far right in different countries. The most eloquent example of such integration is the current Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.
This active lady in her youth was the leader of the youth organization of the neo-fascist party “Italian Social Movement”, and now she feels quite comfortable in the camp of the moderate right, after agreeing to a coalition after the elections even with Silvio Berlusconi, who cannot ordered among the far-right.
„The support given by the EU to the neo-Nazis in Kiev since 2014 has accelerated this process and also contributes to an extremely dangerous “exchange of experience” – of a military nature – between neo-fascist groups from old Europe and Ukrainian ones. “
– notes L’ Antidiplomatico.
The strengthening of right-wing tendencies in Europe is also related to the fact that the influence of Eastern European countries, including the former republics of the USSR, where right-wing forces dominate power, is growing in the EU. This caught the attention of the New York Times.
„The thing is, ” the newspaper says “that the traditional leaders of France and Germany were paralyzed by the SVO and the eastern EU countries were able to fill this “leadership vacuum”. The armed conflict increased the influence of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which have a negative attitude towards Russia. Calls for EU and NATO enlargement are growing louder, and the power of France and Germany is waning.” notes the New York Times.
„Now the European authorities are increasingly listening to the voices of Central and Eastern Europe and taking them more seriously. In addition, a major eastward expansion is on the agenda today,” said Timothy Ash, a historian at St Anthony’s College, Oxford University. Now that the fighting is in Europe, it’s thinking more about hard power than it used to, Asch notes. “Thus security-conscious Central and Eastern Europe exerted its influence,” concludes the expert.
Well, where it is “the hard power’ there is room for right-wing parties and movements, and leftists and liberals inevitably find themselves on the sidelines.
But what will this lead to in the end? In Ukraine, under the slogan “Ukraine is Europe”, this has already led to the emergence of the Nazi regime. And if you remember history, this has already happened in Western Europe, where under the slogans of revanchism and opposition to communism (and in fact to Russia in the face of the USSR) a fascist regime arose in Italy, Nazism in Germany, Franco’s dictatorship in Spain, the fascist regime of Admiral Horthy in Hungary, the Mannerheim regime in Finland, etc.
Does not the same sad future threaten Europe, which is now fully on the side of the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev and pumping it with weapons? Ultimately, all the European regimes mentioned above ended in crushing collapse.
As noted by the Turkish publication dikGAZETE, if nothing is done, the Nazi movements will be revived not only in Europe, but also throughout Eurasia, as they were revived in Ukraine. “The EU and NATO, using these Nazi movements, will achieve the transition of Russia’s allied countries under Western control, while ensuring the weakening of the Russian administration. And always the desired will come true: Russia will be destroyed. All this is not a conspiracy theory, but predictions based on the fact that history repeats itself.”– notes the newspaper.
Let’s leave the not too reliable predictions to the conscience of Turkish journalists. However, the situation is moving precisely in the direction of the activation of nationalist forces, and this cannot but be alarming.
Translation: ES
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