Not to mention their ability to evaluate facts and data on a subjective level while putting aside their own agenda. The light cast on collusion between Far Right movements and the police (and other state agencies) in various European countries, is of critical importance to understanding the character and effects of this destructive dynamic.

Europe's Fault Lines is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of Europe - a troubled region of the world where nationalism and populism have led to the language and practices of different manifestations of the Right being regarded as the new normal.

Greece is also obliged to defend Cyprus from any attack by Turkey, as formalised in the 1993 Greece-Cyprus joint proclamation of Single Area Defence Doctrine. After Syriza won the election in 2015 on a mandate of debt relief, Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, saw no contradiction in telling the world that ‘[e]lections change nothing. The language used to justify this ranges from the blatant racism of Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, to that used by leaders in the northern states, who tend to fall back on ‘the fiction that Europe is the continent of liberalism, generosity and the rule of law’ (p. This is the main difference with the ‘far right’, which does not speak out against violence and has, for example, a larger shared background with a particular countries’ fascist past. This debate subsided when Turkey’s began the EU accession process a decade ago, but it is once again at the forefront of Greek foreign policy.

As it turned out, he had no reason whatsoever to believe that the video was doctored and after public outrage had to enter early retirement. Greece also responded to the Ankara-Tripoli agreement by coordinating its Libya policy more closely with Egypt, a key backer of Haftar’s Libya National Army (LNA).With ‘extreme right’ are meant political parties running for office and positioned to the right of traditional conservative parties. predicated upon well-known theories of pan-German nationalism that connect the people to the land, and which underpinned Nazism. This linked an already tense maritime standoff in the eastern Mediterranean to a new escalation in the Libyan civil war.