![]() This summer President Sarkozy launched a drive to repatriate Roma and strip some criminals of foreign origin of their French nationality, drawing fierce criticism from the church, rights groups, opposition parties and the EU. The FN saw its support fall in the 2007 vote, in part because conservative Nicolas Sarkozy ran a tough-on-crime campaign that drew some of its supporters, but the party rebounded in a regional vote in March. Some recent polls have put its support closer to 16 percent.įRANCE The far-right National Front (FN) of Jean-Marie Le Pen has been a force in French politics since the late 1980s, reaching a high-point in support during the 2002 presidential election. In the last election in 2007, it won 25 seats in the 179-seat parliament with 13.8 percent of the vote. The right-wing populist Danish People’s Party, which warns of a creeping Islamification of Denmark, has been the third biggest in parliament since 2001 and was boosted by a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the Mohammad cartoon crisis in 2005. ![]() The party argues for the demolition of Roma ghettos and cutting off social aid to Roma who don’t send their children to school. ![]() BULGARIAīulgaria’s anti-Roma Attack party became the fourth largest group in parliament last year, winning 9.4 percent of the vote. A poll this month showed 64 percent of Britons believe the current level of immigration is making their country “a worse place to live.” However, the far-right British National Party failed to make much of an impact in the recent election and is in disarray. The new government of Prime Minister David Cameron is moving to fulfil campaign pledges to restrict immigration in Britain, which had the second highest net inflow of immigrants in the 27-nation EU last year after Italy.Īmong planned measures, a permanent cap on migrants from outside the EU will be set in April. ![]()
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