It's like talking about, you know, mainstream Nazi party or moderate fascist party.
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One contender for the foreign minister's job is Gianfranco Fini, the leader of a once-fascist party and now deputy prime minister.
The recent financial crisis affecting his country has heralded a rise in popularity for the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn, one of Europe's most controversial -- and right-wing -- parties.
Given this background, not to mention Germany's detested wartime occupation of Greece and the recent rise of neo-fascist political party Golden Dawn, Katidis has since admitted the "stupidity" of his actions.
It's tempting to write off collectors of Nazi memorabilia as a bunch of fascist kooks swapping party favors.
Syriza called for swift prosecution of the men, warning that "tolerance of the fascist Golden Dawn party will lead to a loss of life".
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the fascist Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), frequently endorses the restoration of the historical Russia within the boundaries of the Russian empire.
Number 60 Andrassy Ut was the headquarters of the secret police of the Fascist Arrow Cross party in the dying days of WWII, and from 1945 to 1956 the building was used for similar purposes by the equally repressive Communists.
Similar sentiments saw Greece's fascist-sympathizing Golden Dawn party garnering roughly 7% of the polling this weekend at the expense of mainstream conservative and leftist parties.
Mr Zeman replied by calling Mr Haider and his party "post-fascist" and accusing it openly of seeking to veto Prague's EU membership application.
In Italy, Gianfranco Fini, who has distanced his party, the post-fascist National Alliance, from its fascist heritage, joined the government of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994.
Those who criticise Portillo's apparent "conversion" evidently know very little about his diverse background as a son of an anti-Fascist Spanish socialist and a teenage Labour party supporter.
This week Francesco Cossiga, a former Christian Democratic president who has just founded his own party, attacked Mr Fini for his fascist past.
He had successfully fused his own party with that of the formerly neo-fascist Gianfranco Fini to create a single movement of the right, the People of Freedom (PdL).
But he would be vulnerable to Gianfranco Fini, the foreign minister, who is also deputy prime minister and leader of the second-biggest party on the right, the formerly neo-fascist National Alliance.
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But others, including the post-fascist National Alliance's leader, Gianfranco Fini, whose party is set to join Mr Berlusconi's in a coalition government if the left loses the election due by next spring, suggested that the boss had mistackled.
Despite the Duma election victory which Vladimir Zhirinovsky chalked up (with 23% of the votes for the half of the Duma filled by party list) in 1993, his openly neo-fascist lot have peaked.
Mr Bahceli's party is ultra-nationalist (some call it neo-fascist) and its forebear, in the 1970s and 1980s, was engaged in street violence and racketeering.
Mr Sanader would, however, like to avoid links with another right-wing party that, until recently, glorified Croatia's second world war fascist leaders.
Fini once described Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as one of last century's "greatest statesmen, " while his party, the National Alliance, was forged from the remains of Mussolini's black shirts.
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