What is behind the rise of the far-right in Europe? | Inside Story

European far-right parties made substantial gains in the EU's parliamentary election.
In France and Germany, parties once considered to be on the fringes, are now establishing themselves as viable challengers to the establishment.
So what is driving this shift on the 'Old Continent'?
And will these parties be able to turn their successes in European elections into power at a national level?

Presenter: Nastasya Tay

Guests
Janine di Giovanni, Foreign Policy Analyst and Correspondent.
Katy Brown, Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, researching the far-right in France, Italy, Ireland and the UK.
Alberto Alemanno, Professor of European Union Law and Policy at the HEC business school.

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[Walker]

Islamic extremism and declining standard of living.

[benshephard]

Why am I always hearing the left talk about the right. Can you have some people diverse opinions on here?

[famigliasartor]

Is not the far right, get your facts straight. Is just the right. Stop saying always far right, you are offending who votes for what they believe. Is called democracy.

[tarheelskoog]

Poor policies has created a movement of change to the right.

[donHooligan]

not just Europe, but....The West.



Anya Parampil broke the story, yesterday.

[SunglassSensei]

Geez, could it be the INVASION of Europe... I wonder... 😂

[NoName]

Don't ignore you "own people" for the "others".

[jizyaisextortion]

Europe is a Christian civilization and must remain that way.
I don't go to Saudi Arabia and tell them to change their way of life. Immigrants must respect the norms of European society

[silviualbisoru]

AlJazeera, you were not able to find analysts that are unbiased or at least find some that are on both sides?
You got these two ladies who are almost crying there from the fear of the “far right”?

[MilenaBlazanovic-oqiy]

Pro Palestinian protests only shifted people towards right wing. West stands with Israel, not with terorists, we proved it many times, the more you protest for Gaza the more we support Israel, and therefore - far right

[jackmars]

People are tired of having their ancestral lands being invaded by people that couldn't make things work in their own.

[teddydavis]

You can't allow people who are used to such a low standard of living to bring down the standard of living in Europe. Europeans have migrated for centuries, so I hope that this isn't causing this shift. There are many refugees who are not used to living in societies that are organized. They are not used to rules and regulations. They tend not to assimilate, which creates lots of problems.

[neildepoy]

Is it true your journalist are keeping hostages ?

[stoepkakker]

Islam. The Europeans are drawing a line in the sand. Long overdue.

[ch.k.]

The key word here is 'nationalistic.' Nationalism is often associated with right-wing political movements, as it has historically been utilized by right-wing parties and groups. However, there is also left-wing nationalism, which is known as socialist or anticolonial nationalism.

[nd_ludd]

The West is crying out for professional govt that represents the people. Under the two party system each country in the West has is not democracy but the same policies by different people. There has however we are told that Russia with their traditional values are assisting the right wing. At this point democracy is basically dead, Gaza and the covid period have shown this. As a citizen of the West I would accept anyone that will make changes.

[justsomeguy]

Watching them try to downplay or spin the epic win for the right is so funny. 😂

[MrMAXZ]

Every European far left party that made Gaza a.k.a. "Free Palestine" central to its campaign - failed miserably. Think about that.

[philipen]

PiS is pro Russian? THey may be described in many ways (in negative sense), but nobady in Poland is pro Russian, including pis. What is she talking about? AJ select pls some serious panellists, knowing at least something with respect to discussed topic. This is embarrassing

[olafvonbraun]

Everyone keeps mentioning Ukraine. It’s not Ukraine that started this European war. You gotta call the aggressor out, not the victim.