Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Nationalism and its discontents



The BBC reports on a Nationalistic party movements throughout Europe. Remember at the start of this course when we considered Nationalism as a hurdle to globalization:


"The eurosceptic and anti-immigration True Finns have taken nearly a fifth of votes in Finland's general election, reflecting a trend across Nordic and Western European countries.


The phrase "rise of the far-right" has been used - though in each country the parties concerned have their own characteristics and do not necessarily fit the conventional "far-right" description.
Here we record the electoral status - and political influence - of some of the most succesful nationalist/ anti-immigrant parties in Europe."


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