Europe’s far right goes mainstream
Many far right parties across the continent are shifting their agendas.
European far-right parties have managed to appeal to the electorate with anti-Islam and anti-immigration rhetoric. That led them to make significant gains.
However, many of those parties are changing their political agendas with the aim of being like other parties.
What’s behind this shift? And was the danger of the far right exaggerated in the first place?
Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault
Guests:
Petros Fassoulas – vice-chairman of European Movement UK
Franck Guillory – editor of Jol Press, France’s first e-magazine of international news.
Alan Mendoza – founder and director of the Henry Jackson Society
Published On 14 Apr 2015