Europe’s far right has suffered some setbacks recently: Germany’s top opposition party is under surveillance for extremism and France shut down a right-wing youth group
South Africa’s Freedom Front Plus party, whose aim is to establish a white homeland in this majority black country, surprised political observers by winning ten parliamentary seats in the May elections
Once renowned as a tolerant and open society, Sweden has seen a marked shift to the right. The Sweden Democrats – whose roots lie in the neo-Nazi movement – came in third in May’s EU parliamentary elections, on a platform of anti-immigrant policies. Like many far right parties in Europe, the Sweden Democrats once strongly campaigned to leave the European Union
Police and far-right demonstrators clashed in the Ukrainian capital on March 9 as several hundred people gathered outside the presidential administration building in Kyiv to call for the arrest of figures implicated in an alleged military corruption scandal