Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Far-right sets sights on European Parliament - "They claim that Islamic immigrants stream into their countries to abuse social services and supplant Western culture." (How in the world could the "extreme . . . far . . . far . . . far-right" have ever come up with such a crazy cockamamie extreme far-far-far-out notion? Unbelievable!)


Far-right sets sights on European Parliament

 (Jacques Brinon, File/ Associated Press ) - FILE - In this March 30, 2014 file photo, France’s far right National Front leader Marine Le Pen attends a party meeting in Nanterre, west of Paris. The extreme right is rising across Europe and Le Pen wants to seize the momentum, raise the voice of her anti-immigration National Front in one of the European Union’s crucial institutions and amplify it through alliances.

PARIS — France’s far-right National Front, coming off a historic electoral victory at home, is marching toward a new target: the European Parliament.
Party chief Marine Le Pen is leading the charge for continent-wide elections next month like the general of a conquering army, and hoping to attract kindred parties around Europe in a broad alliance. . . .
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