Europe has for long grieved from far-right politics and dangerous right extremism. Over the past decade, however, the terrorism connected to the ideology has grown in impact and effectiveness. The swelling mainstreaming of xenophobic narratives which hold non-whites culpable for the existing dire state of affairs has brought the far-flung views into larger public view. At the same time, Europe has seen a growth in a progressively networked and armed extreme rightwing, showing a perilous portrait evolving in disturbing directions.
In Europe, similarly as in some different pieces of the world, governments offered to contain the spread of COVID-19 brought extremist fanatics to the cutting edge of against lockdown fights. In Germany, for example, fanatics have gone to meetings coordinated by a typical extreme right ideological group, Alternative for Germany (AfD), and utilized the pandemic to spread anti-Semitic and bigoted fear inspired notions. Large numbers of these speculations have credited Jews as the cause of the emergency and reasoning for lockdown and held responsible the migrants for being the first transporters of the infection.
In addition, the murder of the African American George Floyd on May 25, 2020 by a police officer in Minnesota sparked anti-racist protests and counterdemonstrations around the world. Right-wing extremists in Europe are taking advantage of the chaos to carry out counter-protests against "white racism" in Paris., the demolition of national monuments linked to slavery and colonialism in London, and ultimately incitement to violence, this far-right trend, taking advantage of the chaos created during COVID19 and racial protests, is not shocking. But it comes after a overall inclination in European politics of the normalization and passive support of far-right voices. In Football, we see steps being taken to minimize and stamp out racism by various campaigns involving great footballers and also the current ones, but they are failing to their job. FIFA & UEFA can be proud of their steps like taking a knee before matches in some English premier league or some international matches, but have they been effective? It would be argued to be ineffective if any of us watch Serie-A, the Italian football league. Racist chants and abuses are commonplace in the matches there and nothing is changing. Same way, as the world watched England lose the EURO 2020 Championship to Italy in penalty shootouts, the players from England missing the penalties happen to be from mixed or black ethnicity. This cruel twist of fate resulted in a barrage of racist abuse online though hidden behind their mobile screens. The point remains, the right-wing extremism and its normalization is a dangerous trend emerging especially in the last 6-7 years that has seeped into the normal life in Europe. The right-wing political parties are merely using these xenophobic thinking and turning them into votes, a strategy that was quite useful to Donald Trump throughout his presidency and especially useful & effective for Adolf Hitler who dominated the political scene in Germany by the same tricks of the trade. Let's try to find out some of the more right-wing leaning countries in Europe and what is the reason for this right-wing populism. Let's study some of the European countries observing the upsurge of the far-right.