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October 8, 2012

Europe's New Fascists

Niall Ferguson, Newsweek

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Nothing was easier to predict than this: that the crisis of the euro zone would spark a nationalist backlash. Golden Dawn is not just xenophobic; it is also Europhobic. The same thing has happened in the Netherlands: there, Geert Wilders started out by attacking Muslim immigrants (and indeed Islam itself), but has more recently added Euro-bashing to his repertoire of his Freedom Party.

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TAGGED: Eurozone, Marine Le Pen, France, Geert Wilders, Netherlands, Finland, True Finns, Golden Dawn, Greece, Europe

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