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The EU Pact in Italy The road to the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in Italy is quite ambivalent: on the one hand, as lawyers and NGOs have commented, it will be very likely delayed; on the other hand, few measures contained in the Pact have already been enforced. More... Read More "Punitive environments and asylum seekers as rights abusers"
Working Conference on the global network of the far-right Across borders, we are witnessing a surge of the far right. Globally, democratic systems are under assault. This is not merely the result of misguided anger from below. There is concrete evidence that a Reactionary International... Read More "From Analysis to Action: Confronting the “Reactionary International”"
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How movements in the streets paved the way for the institutions In 2005, Zapatero regularized the legal status of half a million people. Since then, no government has promoted any similar initiative, until the citizen movement Regularización Ya (Regularization Now) came on the scene. “Regularization was... Read More "The Extraordinary Regularization of Migrants in Spain"
John Nielsen
Despite being one of the first countries to sign the UN Refugee Convention, Denmark has also been a frequent first-mover on harsh immigration policies in Europe. An increasing number of political parties – not all of them right-wing or nationalist – across Europe point to the “Danish model” as... Read More "Why Europe should avoid modelling its migration policy on Denmark"
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The Finnish government was sent into upheaval almost as soon as it was formed in June last year, as multiple revelations of racist statements and memes emerged concerning one of the new coalition’s two main parties – The Finns, a far-right nationalist anti-immigration party. The crisis almost brought the... Read More "Finland’s far right: between scandal and mainstream"
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With ex-Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri running for the Rassemblement National in the EU elections, boundaries between mainstream institutional politics and the far right seem ever more blurred. Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) has long claimed an anti-establishment identity, irreducible to... Read More "The Far Right Has Found Its Place in Europe’s Institutions"
Spain’s far right has lagged behind its counterparts in other European countries in gaining a foothold in Spanish political institutions. After the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, far-right platforms experienced failure after failure, and only starting in 2011 did they begin to gain representation... Read More "The international alliances of the Spanish far right"
The amnesty for politicians and activists prosecuted for the independence referendum held in Catalonia on 1 October 2017 mobilizes far-right groups around the slogan "Spain is breaking up". Nazi, fascist and ultra-Catholic groups rally against Spain's new government. Spain's... Read More "The Spanish far right mobilizes against the new progressive coalition government"