The powerful neo-Nazi network destroying the European Union from within
Part 3 of Return of the Reich: Mapping the Global Resurgence of Far Right Power — an INSURGE intelligenceinvestigative series commissioned by Tell MAMA
Nazis are on the march across Europe. But you won’t hear the jackboots. Because while they see the European Union as their enemy, they are infiltrating EU structures to consolidate their political influence at home and abroad.
Since the 2014 European elections, alliances with mainstream political parties have granted the far-right access to millions of Euros in funding — quantities that can act as a catalysing game-changer for traditionally fringe parties with minimal funding and marginal national support.
One of these parties, the German AfD, was belatedly expelled from the European Conservative and Reformist Group in March 2016 — three months after AfD leaders called for German border police to shoot illegal civilian refugees.
But the AfD’s neo-Nazi heritage and ideology is part of a curious pattern in the way the ECR, led by the Conservative Party that currently runs the British government, has welcomed such parties into the fold.
Three other partners in the Tory coalition — the Danish People’s Party and the True Finns, and the Independent Greeks — have also displayed alarming but little-understood neo-Nazi sympathies. While the Independent Greeks are no longer directly represented in the ECR, the two other parties remain members, and an MEP formerly affiliated with the Greek party maintains a senior leadership role in the coalition.
All three parties have demonstrated far-right affiliations. Yet the MEPs associated with them remain in the ECR.
One of them is a confessed ‘counter-jihadist’ closely affiliated to the network that inspired Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik. Another is a convicted racist and member of a neo-Nazi fraternity. A third is a former member of a party that, under his watch, tolerated anti-Semitism at the highest levels and courted a Russian fascist who praised the Nazi SS.
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