Far-Right Parties Rise in Europe – Many Friendly to Russia
by News Editor
Right-wing Jobbik Party members in Hungary holding a rally. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
New York Times – At a rally last week near the Palace of Versailles, France’s largest far-right party, the National Front, deployed all the familiar theatrics and populist themes of nationalist movements across Europe.
A standing-room-only crowd waved the national flag, joined in a boisterous singing of the national anthem and applauded as speakers denounced freeloading foreigners and, with particular venom, the European Union.
