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From L to R, top to bottom, chairman of the True Finns party Timo Soini, leader of the German neo-Nazi party NPD Udo Voigt, Greece’s Golden Dawn spokesman and parliament member Ilias Kasidiaris, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, leader of right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) party Heinz-Christian Strache, Chairman of Hungarian far-right parliamentary JOBBIK (Better) party Gabor Vona, Danish Peoples Party’s Morten Messerschmidt and France’s far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen. (AFP PHOTO)

Far right, Euroskeptics make sweeping gains in European Parliament election

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2014 | World

Brussels, AP—Far-right and Euroskeptic parties made sweeping gains in European Parliament elections Sunday—triggering what one prime minister called a political “earthquake” by those who want to slash the powers of the European Union or abolish it...

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Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta addresses the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Italy’s voters give boost to fragile coalition, shun Grillo

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 28, 2013 | World

Rome, Reuters—Italian voters gave Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s fragile coalition government a badly needed boost in local elections, shunning Beppe Grillo’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement three months after its spectacular success in a parliamentary...