Two far right parties from these countries, the French National Front and the Dutch Freedom Party, have now formed an alliance ahead of the European Parliament elections in May 2014.

In the past, the law has been used to curb parties of both the extreme left and the extreme right.

In fact, Western Europe s extreme right parties attraction to Putin s negative agenda can be understood in relation to another authoritarian anti ideology Benito Mussolini s fascism.

And yet what ultimately unites Europe s far right parties is similar to what underlies the Tea Party s rise within America s Republican Party covert racism and xenophobia.

Far right sectors of the Army rebelled in the Carapintadas ( painted faces ) movement.

In 2011, the NPD officially merged with another far right party, the German People s Union, which has long been linked to Russia s Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) and its founder and leader, the ultra nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Support for compliant establishment parties duly collapsed from 81 in 2009 to 49 in 2014 in Spain. Fortunately, memories of fascist dictatorship may have inoculated Spain and Portugal against the far right virus, with left wing anti austerity parties and regionalists benefiting instead.

Centrist parties pay the price for their support of the European integration project, and are repudiated in the polls by parties of the extreme right or extreme left.

In the US, the far right shares many of the characteristics of its populist European counterparts.

The ethos of Israel s far right consists in its insistence on blurring this distinction.

In France, the extreme right s shifting allegiances are even more pronounced, exemplified in its budding friendship with the new Russia.

The left wing parties are towards the bottom, the Christian parties in the centre, with the right wing parties towards the top.

Furthermore, Western Europe s extreme right can learn from Putin s management of his youth organization, Nashi.

The phrase most often heard in Austria among voters of the right wing parties is fresh air.

If other democracies boast Right, Center and Left, we have Jewish and Arab parties, secular and religious, peacenik and hard line, socialist and free market.

For this far right fringe, gold is the only hedge against the risk posed by the government s conspiracy to expropriate private wealth.

In India, parties on both the left and the right opposed it the former claiming that it mortgaged India s foreign policy to the US, and the latter arguing that it didn t go far enough to preserve India s nuclear independence.

Any alliance by mainstream conservative parties with far right forces will turn out to be a guarantee of defeat moral as well as political.

Jacques Chirac was re elected president with 82 of the vote because of the menace from the extreme right.

The more Royal returns to the classics of the Socialist Party, and the more Sarkozy openly courts the extreme right, the more Bayrou s popularity rises.

Legal and illegal migration triggers far right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.

That will not be welcomed by Europe s far right, from Hungary s Jobbik to France s National Front. They love Putin.

Scandinavian countries have their share of problems, such as Denmark s significant xenophobic extreme right and Norway s occasional bouts of provincial puritanism.

Something similar is happening on the extreme right, with white power offering an apparent certainty to youngsters who are adrift.

In the first round of French presidential elections, the extreme right and left received more than 30 of the vote, with Martine Le Pen s anti EU National Front threatening to supplant the center right Union for a Popular Movement as the country s new mainstream rightist party.

Following the 2004 elections, the European People s Party (EPP), which regroups right and center right parties, held 288 MPs of the Parliament s 785 seats.

And the French and voters elsewhere in Europe vote for far right parties the most when the far left is weakest.

Indeed, right wing populists in Poland and left wing populists in Slovakia are now allied in government with extreme nationalist parties.

Two right wing parties have left his ruling coalition, he has lost his majority within his own Likud Party, and his finance minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has quit his government.

The American Far Right and the vengeful Mafioso organizations of Cuban origin based in Florida which cannot forgive us for having forged a true revolution have devised a plan for Cuba.

As Israel s political center of gravity has shifted to the right, if not the extreme right, one consequence whose long term effects are not sufficiently appreciated is the growing alienation of Arab citizens, who represent 20 of the population.

Revitalization of the extreme right in Hungary and the rise of National Bolshevism in Russia, where Tolstoy is now re condemned by the Orthodox Church as a proto communist, suggest a deeper and more pervasive atavistic longing.

What really explains these new public controversies surrounding religion is something else, something political the dilemma in which right wing and center right European parties find themselves.

People have finally come to understand that anti Americanism, born on the extreme right and fed, in Germany, for example, by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his acolytes, is a fixture of fascism.

Contrary to what some politicians were quick to explain on the evening of the first round, it seems that the French who gave their vote to extremism do not suffer that much from the immigration scourge.

The War with Radical Islam

Since the two parties leaders, Heinz Christian Strache and Jörg Haider, despise each other, there is little chance of a far right coalition taking power.

And, as in Italy, a right wing party, backed by the US, dominated politics for decades in order to crush any chance for the left to take power.

Of course, it is dangerous to idealize the Scandinavian model. Scandinavian countries have their share of problems, such as Denmark s significant xenophobic extreme right and Norway s occasional bouts of provincial puritanism.

If you look at the rise of far right fascism across Europe of late, you will see some things that are happening that are influencing domestic politics, yet the phenomenon is transnational.

So he must surely loath writers who represent everything that the Tea Party and other radical right wingers abhor the highly educated, intellectual, urban, secular, and not always white.

There had also been an alarming upsurge of political parties on the extreme right that mobilized large sectors of society, created networks to disseminate their ideas, and propagate violence beyond their borders.

Chen squandered six valuable years as his administration engaged mainly in polemics with its opposition parties while he pandered to the extreme wing of the DPP and mobilized his government to de Sinicize Taiwan culture.

In this sense, Putinism can serve as a model for extreme right parties, which, in post World War II Europe, cannot openly advocate an authoritarian regime or a one party system.

Putinism presents a clever and effective model of a right wing authoritarian regime that can function within modern Europe s sociopolitical constraints one that Western Europe s extreme right seems keen to emulate.