There are dark clouds above Europe and they are not only of an economic nature. Far worse, it is a political cancer Europe already has experienced before and its called far-right totalitarianism.
In France Marine Le Pen wants to bust the French political system -- and people across Europe and beyond should take note. Her stunning score in the first round of French presidential elections won her anti-immigrant National Front a place in the Europe-wide march of nationalist -- sometimes extremist -- parties toward seats of power.
Le Pen's rage will be on millions of voters' minds, both her critics and fans, as they elect a president Sunday.
On that same day, Greek citizens, strapped by austerity measures in a nation crushed by debt, could vote in about a dozen lawmakers from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn.
In the upcoming September Dutch elections, Geert Wilders, Muslim hater and populist right wing proponent is also seen as a potential threat to the stability of the Netherlands political and economic system, by most of his political colleagues in the Dutch Parliament.
Bit by bit, far-right parties from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia are gaining momentum among the populace and getting a foothold in their nations' power structures.
"This must be stopped before it becomes an avalanche", said a moderate EU Parliamentarian.
EU-Digest
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