L’extreme droit a
formé un autre parti fédéral. The anti-E.U. party officially announced on
June 16, 2015, is named “Europe of Nations and Freedoms.” A label can say a lot
about a party’s principles. In this case, the overriding point is that the E.U.
is supranational. That is to say, the
Union is an international organization. Closely behind is the secondary point
that freedom resides at the national level, otherwise known as the level of the
states. Even though the supporting state parties were at the time typically
labeled as extreme—the extreme right—the main-stream media in the E.U.
reporting on the new party used rhetoric subtly undergirding the principles.
Le Pen and Wilders toasting their new ethnic group in the European Parliament (Source: G. Wilders)
The full essay is at “Ethnic
Groupings in the European Parliament”
