Gloria Alvarez Desanti, DPhil
The failures of governments in Europe to the consequences of the global economic crisis and recent events in the Middle East have created an environment suitable for the strengthening of the extreme right in Europe and their arguments against migrants. This can be seen in the statements of Marine Le Pen, the new French leader of the National Front in France, during his visit to immigration detention center on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Mrs. Le Pen declares "If I only listen to my heart, of course I would leave up to my ship ... but my boat is too fragile and, if I bring my ship will sink ... Europe has capacity to welcome all these illegal immigrants. " Also, British Prime Minister, David Cameron said that Britain would not "mass immigration ... immigrants have an unwillingness to learn English and integrate into communities."
In recent surveys of voting intentions for the upcoming French presidential elections of 2012, Marine Le Pen has a 24% acceptance and President Nicolas Sarkozy at 19%.
right-wing parties have been strengthened since the nineties in northern Europe, some only at regional levels. Among the parties that have gained ground in Germany we have the Republican Party, German People's Union, the National Democratic Party, in Australia the Freedom Party, the Flemish Bloc in Belgium, in Denmark Danish People's Party, in Italy the Northern League and the National Alliance, in Norway the Progress Party, and in Portugal the Popular Party, among others. All are marked by hostility towards immigrants, concerns about the growing activities of Islamic terrorists, the consequences of globalization and, more recently, resentment toward the European Union and the cost of rescuing the country from its crisis taxation, especially Greece. In Denmark right-wing policies in Parliament took them to reduce aid to developing countries. For its part, Spain Force Survey of the National Institute Statistics showed that unemployment in the first quarter of 2011 was 21.29%. These levels of unemployment inevitably have political consequences and simplistic answers from the extreme right can be attractive.
The evidence seems to show that they have weakened the regional integration model and the ideal of multiculturalism. The optimism that surrounded the adoption of the euro is now gone. Instead, it begins to appear sort intolerant nationalism reigns anti-Islamism, exacerbated by rising unemployment. Europe lived in the century past traumatic experiences of bigotry, racism, scapegoating and genocide, which were accompanied or preceded by high unemployment and economic instability. The second part of the twentieth century evolved successfully into a model of tolerance, multiculturalism and integration even as insurance against the fratricidal war. Today, with generational changes they see as far the first half of the twentieth century and return specter of unemployment and with this, the intolerance of the right approaches to become more tempting. Europe must deal with a changing world, characterized by factors such as globalization, immigration and transnational security challenges, but must do so by sacrificing the high ideals that have motivated.
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