Tuesday, 26. November 2002
Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 11:03:06 PM CET
Eurobrief: To stem Europe's populist tide
Ever since Jorg Haider's Freedom Party burst on to the Austrian political scene in the late 1990s, Europe's chattering classes have spent many a conference hour debating how to stem the rise of far-right populist parties across the continent.
Hardliners such as Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel, believe in treating extremists -- the Freedom Party, the Vlaams Blok in Belgium, the Liga Nord in Italy and company -- like political lepers.
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