In 1985, the National Front, France's far-right party, was already gathering over a quarter of the vote in local elections here.
However they failed to agree to phase out sanctions imposed four months ago upon Austria, after it had included a far-right party in its government.
Greek left-wing MP Dimitris Stratoulis has said he was attacked in Athens by three men claiming to be supporters from the far-right party Golden Dawn.
And while Golden Dawn gained strength, another far-right party, LAOS, lost its small presence in the 300-seat parliament as voters punished it for its support for Greece's austerity program, Gemenis pointed out.
Support for Jobbik, the thuggish far-right party which won 17% of the vote in April, and the Magyar Garda, its uniformed wing, is sliding as the party fractures amid a welter of mutual recriminations.
Germany's constitutional court in Karlsruhe rejected the ban after it established that most of the evidence against the far-right party was inadmissible because it had been collected by government intelligence agents who had infiltrated the organisation.
This shift had been preceded in the late 1990s by the rise of two new parties: Shinui, an anti-clerical outfit founded by Tommy Lapid, and Yisrael Beitenu, a far-right party, backed mainly by Russian immigrants, led by Avigdor Lieberman.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Hungary's prime minister told an international assembly of Jews on Sunday that his government has declared "zero tolerance" on anti-Semitism, but his speech failed to impress those gathered who said he has failed to confront the country's largest far-right party.
The ruling coalition has been an awkward one: Mr Ecevit's DSP, the centre-right Motherland party and the far-right Nationalist Action Party.
"A New Democracy-led government backed by Pasok and the Democratic Left is a mix that can only last for a few months, " said George Kyrtsos, a newspaper publisher and political commentator who was also a candidate with far-right-wing party Laos, which failed to enter Parliament.
Coupled with a mistrust of the political elite, this has also led to a swell of support for the far right in Austria, Belgium and Scandinavian countries, Minkenberg said, while in Hungary, the far-right Jobbik party won a significant chunk of the vote in 2010.
This week an MEP from Jobbik, a far-right Hungarian party, called for the mass internment of Roma.
Austria's far-right Freedom Party has seen its support halved in a regional poll in the country's largest province.
Hungary's far-right Jobbik party has staged a rally in central Budapest in protest at the capital's hosting of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Sunday.
And on the home front, a key pledge to ban the far-right NPD party has floundered after it emerged that key witnesses were long-time police informers.
But these days it is a former devotee of Mr Bolkestein's, Geert Wilders of the far-right Freedom Party, who runs a website for citizens to complain about Polish migrants.
Last week Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, which provides the minority government with backbench support, lashed out against plans to extend further financial backing to Greece.
Mr Orban gives enough to take the pressure off, but he carefully guards his domestic base, especially on the right flank, as the far-right Jobbik party remains a threat.
The coalition suffered a further setback in the Viennese municipal election of October 2010, when the far-right Freedom Party won 26% of the vote, placing it second only to the Social Democrats.
The situation is very fluid there, but the far-right LAOS party, with a couple of lawmakers in parliament, has lost ground to the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party, which has a history of street violence, Gemenis said.
This only fuels support for the far-right Jobbik party, as more voters come to believe that Fidesz and its friends, just like their Socialist predecessors, have carved up Hungary among themselves as if it were a giant salami.
While delegates applauded some parts of Orban's speech on Sunday, the WJC was also quick to express its disappointment that he had not specifically talked about the country's third biggest political force, the far-right Jobbik party, whose politicians in parliament have made numerous anti-Semitic statements.
Bayrou accused Sarkozy of lurching to the extreme right in the past two weeks of campaigning, as he attempts to appeal to the 6.5 million first-round supporters of the far-right National Front party, BFM-TV reported.
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The transport minister, from the far-right Nationalist Action Party, fought hard against the telecoms legislation.
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Locals rub along with the newcomers well enough, and no candidate from the far-right British National Party is standing.
The controversial law brought in by the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party was passed by a vote of 37 to 25.
The killings have reheated the debate in Germany as to whether to ban the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).
Roberto Calderoli, a minister from the far-right Northern League party, has called for the team's president Luca di Montezemolo to quit.
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