European Far Right is Growing

Anders Behring Breivik, accused of killing scores of young people at a political camp in Norway is part of this growing group.

Click HERE for a report from the Demos UK group - a "socially responsible" think tank. 

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Far right on rise in Europe, says report

Study by Demos thinktank reveals thousands of self-declared followers of hardline nationalist parties and groups

Europe's 'nationalist populists' and far right - interactive

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• Peter Walker and Matthew Taylor

• guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 November 2011 12.17 EST

The far right is on the rise across Europe as a new generation of young, web-based supporters embrace hardline nationalist and anti-immigrant groups, a study has revealed ahead of a meeting of politicians and academics in Brussels to examine the phenomenon.

Research by the British thinktank Demos for the first time examines attitudes among supporters of the far right online. Using advertisements on Facebook group pages, they persuaded more than 10,000 followers of 14 parties and street organisations in 11 countries to fill in detailed questionnaires.


The study reveals a continent-wide spread of hardline nationalist sentiment among the young, mainly men. Deeply cynical about their own governments and the EU, their generalised fear about the future is focused on cultural identity, with immigration – particularly a perceived spread of Islamic influence – a concern...MORE