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Euronationalism refers to a populist far right political movement which asserts a that Europe's culturally distinct nationalist movements have common interests, and asserts the acceptance of their local views within a wider audience. Populism is a political philosophy or rhetorical style that holds that the common persons interests are oppressed or hindered by the elite in society, and that the instruments of the state need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and used for the benefit and advancement of the... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ... Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. ... World map showing Europe Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... Liberty Leading the People by EugÃ¨ne Delacroix Nationalism is an ideology that holds that (ethnically or culturally defined) nations are the fundamental units for human social life, and makes certain cultural and political claims based upon that belief; in particular, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate...

A mirror of the Eurocommunism of the 1970s, Euronationalism represents a political strategy used by far right parties to win votes by appealing to a broader interest, thereby underplaying their radicalism and aiming for a more respectable image. It has been used successfully by movements such as France's Front National, Austria's Freedom Party and Italy's Alleanza Nazionale, the latter two of which have been in government in the recnet years. In this guise it has transformed fascist-influenced parties into mainstream, if hardline, conservative parties. Eurocommunism was an attempt in the 1970s by various European communist parties to widen their appeal by embracing public sector middle-class workers, new social movements such as feminism and gay liberation, rejecting support of the Soviet Union, and expressing more clearly their fidelity to democratic institutions. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The term Radical (latin radix meaning root) has been used since the late 18th century as a label in political science for those favoring or trying to produce thoroughgoing or extreme political reforms which can include changes to the social order to a greater or lesser extent. ... Front National can mean: Front National, a right-wing French political party. ... The Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, abbreviated to FPÖ) is an Austrian political party usually associated with the name of Jörg Haider. ... The National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) is a right-wing Italian party, formed from most of the former Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) and conservative elements of the former Christian Democrats, the National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was created in 1994. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...

Other parties such as the Lega Nord in Italy, Vlaams Belang in Belgium and the Pim Fortuyn List, associated with the late Dutch politician of that name, seem to be pure products of Euronationalism. The Northern League (Italian: Lega Nord) is an Italian political party that advocates autonomy for a part of Northern Italy called Padania. It is a personality-driven party led by Umberto Bossi. ... Vlaams Belang (English: Flemish Interest) is a Belgian political party. ... Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (surname pronounced somewhat like for-TOYN, IPA: ), (February 19, 1948 Velsen, North Holland, The Netherlands â€“ May 6, 2002 Hilversum, North Holland, The Netherlands), was a controversial, openly gay, charismatic politician in the Netherlands who formed his own party Lijst Pim Fortuyn (List...

The British National Party has been trying this strategy, with a measure of success, under the chairmanship of Nick Griffin. It has been alleged by the BBC that the BNP still has links with the avowedly Nazi Combat 18. There is some controversy about the new moderation of the BNP: Griffin has said he would prefer to repatriate all existing visible minorities, but recognises this as impractical and somewhat inhumane. Many people regard this as disingenuous. The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party in the United Kingdom. ... Nicholas John Griffin (born 1959) is a British politician. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, sometimes also known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, founded in 1922. ... BNP can refer to British Nazi Party British National Party A right-wing political party in the United Kingdom Brain natriuretic peptide Backus-Naur form, a notation to describe formal languages. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Combat 18 (or C18) is a British neo-Nazi organization formed in 1992 after meetings between the group Blood & Honour and football hooligans such as the Chelsea Headhunters. ...

The magazine Right Now!, the conservative pressure group the Conservative Democratic Alliance and the small Freedom Party are more self-conscious attempts to create a euronationalist strain within British political thought. Right Now! is a bimonthly British political magazine. ... An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. ... The Conservative Democratic Alliance is a strongly right-wing United Kingdom pressure group which considers the Conservative Party to have swung overtly to the left and to no longer represent Toryism. ... The Freedom Party is a small right wing British political party. ...

Opposition

Within Britain there has been opposition to Euronationalism. The main face of this has been Searchlight magazine and the Anti Nazi League with high-profile members such as cabinet member Peter Hain. The strategy has been to remind voters of the BNP's fascist roots. Left wing critics such as the militantly anti-fascist Red Action have derided the strategy followed, claiming that it is an Establishment strategy that is irrelevant to the working class targets of the BNP. Proponents claim that it has prevented it from being any more than a fringe movement. Searchlight is a British publication which describes itself as an international anti-fascist magazine, and publishes material critical of far-right political parties. ... The Anti-Nazi League (ANL) was an organisation set up in 1977 to oppose the rise of far-right groups in Britain. ... Peter Gerald Hain (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Secretary of State for Wales. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... Anti-Fascism is a belief and practice of opposing all forms of Fascism. ... Red Action is a small London-based leftist grouping. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ...

There are regular marches against the Freedom Party in Vienna. Vlaams Blok is shunned by mainstream parties and has been unable to enter government anywhere in Belgium, and the Belgian state has attempted to sever its funding.

Themes

Euronationalist thinking differs greatly from country to country and group to group. For example the Vlaams Belang is republican, and Pim Fortuyn was a homosexual and believed Muslim immigration is a threat to social liberalism. An Extra-Parliamentary political attitude goes outside respectable politics. ... Liberty Leading the People by EugÃ¨ne Delacroix Nationalism is an ideology that holds that (ethnically or culturally defined) nations are the fundamental units for human social life, and makes certain cultural and political claims based upon that belief; in particular, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate... Places where monarchies maintain rule appear in blue. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... It has been suggested that ecologism be merged into this article or section. ... Republicanism is the idea of a nation being governed as a republic. ... Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (surname pronounced somewhat like for-TOYN, IPA: ), (February 19, 1948 Velsen, North Holland, The Netherlands â€“ May 6, 2002 Hilversum, North Holland, The Netherlands), was a controversial, openly gay, charismatic politician in the Netherlands who formed his own party Lijst Pim Fortuyn (List... Social liberalism is either a synonym for new liberalism or a label used by progressive liberal parties in order to differentiate themselves from the more conservative liberal parties, especially when there are two or more liberal parties in a country. ...

It has been contended (by, among others, Right Now editor Derek Turner) that there is a regional variation in the way in which issues are dealt with. In the northern and western parts of Europe, such parties are often free market, tax-cutting, Atlanticist and sometimes even libertarian in tendency. In southern Europe they are more usually corporatist or semi-corporatist, with a strong traditionalist Catholic support base. In the east these parties often include many ex-communists and have a nationalist veneer; they fear their neighbours’ territorial ambitions, and are often strongly anti-American and anti-Semitic. Derek Turner (born 1964 in Dublin, Ireland) is the editor of the right wing British conservative magazine Right Now!, and a freelance journalist. ... Northern Europe is marked in dark blue Northern Europe is a name of the northern part of the European continent. ... A common understanding of Western Europe in modern times. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... A tax cut is a reduction in the rate of tax charged by a government, for example on personal or corporate income. ... Atlanticism is a philosophy of cooperation among European and North American nations regarding political, economic, and defense issues. ... See also Libertarianism and Libertarian Party Libertarian,is a term for person who has made a conscious and principled commitment, evidenced by a statement or Pledge, to forswear violating others rights and usually living in voluntary communities: thus in law no longer subject to government supervision. ... Current division of Europe into five (or more) regions: one definition of Southern Europe is marked in green Southern Europe is a region of the European continent. ... The term corporatism has different meanings in different contexts. ... Current division of Europe into five (or more) regions: one definition of Eastern Europe is marked in orange Eastern Europe as a region has several alternative definitions, whereby it can denote: the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Central Europe and Russia. ... This article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... Anti-American sentiment is a hostility towards or disapproval of the government, culture, history, and/or people of the United States of America. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Euronationalist Organisations

Although Euronationalism is a rather vague concept, a number of different organisations can be seen to be Euronationalist. These include:

Belgium The Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, abbreviated to FPÖ) is an Austrian political party usually associated with the name of Jörg Haider. ... The Alliance for the Future of Austria (de: BÃ¼ndnis Zukunft Ã–sterreich or BZÃ–) is an Austrian political party founded by JÃ¶rg Haider, his sister Ursula Haubner, and other leading members of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÃ–) on April 4, 2005. ...

Croatia Vlaams Belang (English: Flemish Interest) is a Belgian political party. ... The National Front is a small extreme right Belgian political party. ...

Czech Republic The Croatian Party of Rights (Croatian Hrvatska Stranka Prava, HSP) is a right-wing political party in Croatia, the oldest in the country. ...

Denmark The Republikani Miroslava Sladka party is a Euronationalist Czech party. ...

Finland The Danish Peoples Party (Danish: Dansk Folkeparti) is a populist and nationalist political party in Denmark. ...

France True Finns (Perussuomalaiset in Finnish or SannfinlÃ¤ndarna in Swedish) is a populist party in Finland, founded in 1995 on the ruins of The Finnish Agrarian Party. ... Suomen Kansan Sinivalkoiset (Finnish; Finlands Folkets BlÃ¥vita in Swedish, literally the blue-whites of the Finnish people) is a Finnish political party with a far-right nationalist agenda, led by the controvesial political figure Olavi MÃ¤enpÃ¤Ã¤. The party was founded in 1993, but it didnt become a...

Germany Front National can mean: Front National, a right-wing French political party. ...

Greece There is open debate on rather facism is rightwing or not. ... The Law and Order Offensive Party (German: Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive), short form Offensive D (the D means Deutschland/Germany) is a minor political party in Germany. ...

Hungary The Hellenic Front is a Greek political party with a strongly nationalist platform, founded in 1994. ... Party logo The Popular Orthodox Rally (LA.O.S. - Î›Î‘.ÎŸ.Î£) (Greek: Î›Î±ÏŠÎºÏŒÏ‚ ÎŸÏÎ¸ÏŒÎ´Î¿Î¾Î¿Ï‚ Î£Ï…Î½Î±Î³ÎµÏÎ¼ÏŒÏ‚) is a Greek political party , founded and led by journalist Georgios Karatzaferis, a well-known member of parliament with the New Democracy party. ...

Latvia The Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore is a hardline Italian right-wing party. ... Alternativa Sociale (English language: Social Alternative) is an Italian political coalition of neo-fascist parties. ...

Malta NacionÄlÄ SpÄ“ka SavienÄ«ba (National Power Union, abbreviated NSS; the party translates its name as National Power Unity, sometimes it is also translated as Union of National Force) is a far-right nationalist political party in Latvia, a member of the European National Front. ...

Netherlands Imperium Europa (European Empire in Latin) is a movement in Malta. ...

Poland Lijst Pim Fortuyn (List Pim Fortuyn) is a political party in the Netherlands. ...

Portugal League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin) is a right-wing and populist opposition party in the Polish Parliament. ...

Russia Great Romania Party campaign poster for the Romanian presidential election, 2004. ...

Serbia The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Ð›Ð¸Ð±ÐµÑ€Ð°Ð»ÑŒÐ½Ð¾-Ð”ÐµÐ¼Ð¾ÐºÑ€Ð°Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÐŸÐ°Ñ€Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ Ð Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¸, Liberalno-DemokratiÄeskaja Partija Rossii) is a political party in Russia. ... Serbia and Montenegro â€“ Serbia â€“ Vojvodina â€“ Kosovo (UN admin. ...

Sweden GIL symbol Independent Liberal Group (in Spanish: Grupo Independiente Liberal) was a right-wing Spanish party. ...

Switzerland international = None style=vertical-align: top; text-align: left; Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) (SD), founded in 1988 by Leif Zeilon, is a Swedish far right political party. ... The National Democrats (Nationaldemokraterna) is a minor nationalist political party in Sweden of the extreme-right [1]. It was formed by a faction of Sverigedemokraterna in October 2001 and is widely regarded as racist and neo-fascist. ...

United Kingdom The Swiss Peoples Party (SVP) also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre German: Schweizerische Volkspartei, French: Union DÃ©mocratique du Centre, Italian: Unione Democratica di Centro, Romansh: Partida Populara Svizra) is a political party in Switzerland. ...

A number of the more radical of these are grouped in an organisation controlled by France's Front National, called Euronat. The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party in the United Kingdom. ... Right Now! is a bimonthly British political magazine. ... The Conservative Democratic Alliance is a strongly right-wing United Kingdom pressure group which considers the Conservative Party to have swung overtly to the left and to no longer represent Toryism. ... The Freedom Party is a small right wing British political party. ... Euronat (also known as EuroNet and Euro-Nat) is/was an effort by Jean-Marie Le Pen of Front National to gather all the Euronationalist parties of Europe. ...

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