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Logo: Strike a Light by Rob Howard under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Logo: Strike a Light by Rob Howard under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
by Maik Fielitz and Laura Lotte Laloire
Europe is in trouble. Far right politics is spreading all over the place and its actors and discourses become increasingly influential at various levels: Parties from the far right achieved successes in French, Austrian and Slovakian elections. Far right movement organizations in Germany and Italy mobilized thousands of people to the streets. In Sweden and Great Britain, vigilante and terrorist groups wage armed struggle. And last but not least, ‘illiberal models of democracy’ in Poland and Hungary demonstrate the far right’s capacity to transform politics on the European level.