Features of the radical right in the European countries

Abstract

Over the last decade global immigration processes in Europe have led to increased xenophobia and intolerance towards “others”. As a result, people are more actively voting for far right politics or even extremist, while dreaming of more authoritarian states and experiencing anti-islamic sentiments. Modern far right politics tend to be more local, more radical and they try to modernize their parties, radical movements and the whole right wing subculture. The authors try to analyze this for both – Western and Eastern European countries (France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary). Special attention is paid to the variety of types of far right politics, as well as to the most effective ways to fight the right wing extremists at all levels of society and various forms of intolerance and discrimination that spread throughout Europe.