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Yet, for all the talk of a surge in support for Europe's hard right, their gains should prove broadly in line with a steady progression over the past couple of decades. The difference will be in the response.
"The real storyline is not the continuing advance of the hard-right parties," said Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law at HEC Paris and the College of Europe. "It's the extent to which the centre-right is prepared to normalise some of them."
Across Europe, national-conservative and far-right parties are in government in half a dozen of the EU's 27 member states: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia. In Sweden, a hard-right party is propping up a rightwing coalition in exchange for policy concession. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' far-right Freedom party will form the next government. Austria's autumn elections seem certain to yield a coalition led by the far-right FPÖ. In France, Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) is streets ahead in the polls, while Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is second in Germany.
Setbacks for far-right and national-conservative parties in elections in Spain and Poland last year show that the progression is not necessarily all one way. But the prevailing trend seems clear.
This story is from the June 07, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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