The good news is that the appeal of the far-right Golden Dawn seems to have peaked.
The main driver behind this development is the fall in the membership of far-right parties.
There could be a new alliance of far-right parties that might include France's National Front.
Far-right parties won nearly 29% of the vote, doubling their support since the 2006 elections.
Far-right parties in Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and elsewhere were much more successful (see article).
And now Geert Wilders, a far-right populist, has brought down the Dutch government over budget cuts.
The far-right contender Avigdor Lieberman did create a big stir in the Israeli campaign.
He ran as a moderate in the primary, accusing his opponent of being a far-right extremist.
Mr Fraser is uneasy when he confronts the polished leaders and spokesmen of far-right parties.
Nordic far-right parliamentarians fight shy of comparison among each other, but the similarities are striking.
On November 10th the Christian Democrats moved to expel Martin Hohmann, a far-right backbencher, from the party.
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According to Levin and Gletty, one of the principal ways the groups recruit is through far-right music.
The Swiss parliament elected Christoph Blocher of the far-right Swiss People's Party to the country's seven-man cabinet.
Police estimate that 350 to 400 people took part in that event, which coincided with the far-right rally.
Austria's far-right Freedom Party has seen its support halved in a regional poll in the country's largest province.
Two FARE international monitors will attend each match during Euro 2012 to identify racist behavior and far-right banners.
"She is of her generation, " said Nonna Mayer, an expert on far-right politics at the Sciences Po University.
He ran for the 2002 presidency, but was beaten into third place by far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Some suggest that supporters for the far-right former paratrooper are disguising themselves as Sarkozy voters in the polls.
Yet he will still depend on the votes of his longtime far-right ally, Pia Kjaersgaard's Danish People's Party.
One reason there are no big far-right parties in the Baltics is that they have a harder centre-right.
That is because this would play to the alarmism of the far-right fringe of the Republicans in Congress.
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The far-right leader has also caused alarm by pledging to halt immigration into Austria and to oppose EU enlargement.
With that majority gone, Austria may be stuck with a system that perpetuates unhappy grand coalitions and feeds far-right parties.
Farther east, a different strand of far-right thinking dominates in countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, he said.
"Councils have to be as vigilant about the far-right as they are against terrorism, " he is expected to say.
Locals rub along with the newcomers well enough, and no candidate from the far-right British National Party is standing.
Three far-right writers will be brought back to the school curriculum this autumn.
After the second world war the far-right was taboo in much of Europe.
In France 6.5 million people voted for the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen.
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