Far-right governments seek to cut billions of euros from research in EuropePoliticsPolicyAnti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.#Anti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.#Credit: Remko de Waal/ANP...
How it started: far right governments as an exception A decade or two ago, far right governments were a rarity in Europe. Of course, there were the Berlusconi governments of the 1990s and early 2000s that included the radical right Lega (then still the Lega Nord) and the post-fascist All...
however, it is less dramatic, and only 10% of all the MEPs will belong to ID. However, merely looking at the number of seats is misleading. The influence of the far-right is far more widespread across Europe’s political parties.
Far-right parties have become leading opposition forces in both Germany and France, and they believe they hold the democratic future of these countries in their hands- either by pressuring governments to implement its policies or by threatening to topple them. With Donald Trump back in th...
Romania’s central election authority on Sunday barred far-right pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from running in May’s presidential election re-run. The rejection of his candidacy, which was condemned by far-right party leaders as undemocratic, can be challenged at the constitutional court. ...
There's been concern in some European capitals that the trend will be bolstered by President Trump's resounding election win in November and his policies toward European governments during his second term. Mr. Trump's close advisorElon Musk drew scrutinyrecently by telling a large group of far...
Right-wing leaders across Europe immediately hailed the coalition's victory and Ms Meloni's party’s meteoric rise as sending a historic message to Brussels.The election was a huge victory for Italy's far right. Credit: AP Ms Meloni proudly touts her roots as a militant in the neo-fas...
Kariv wrote that the invitation constituted a “deviation from the longstanding policy of Israeli governments and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it directly contradicts the positions and policies of the representative organizations of Jewish communities in those countries and on the international sta...
While in Europe, the political mogul was inspired by the rise of Adolf Hitler, and vowed to strengthen Colombia’s colonial class system. The end of World War II saw a global clamp-down on fascist governments, but not in Colombia where anti-democratic conservatives like Gomez continued to gov...
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