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Far-right leader Bardella unveils immigration programme ahead of snap elections
21 June 24
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella says that if the National Rally wins the general elections, it will abolish birthright by citizenship and restrict the Schengen area to EU citizens.
Source: Euractiv
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: EU
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Germany: Ministers agree on cash limit for asylum seekers’ payment cards
21 June 24
The leaders of Germany’s 16 states agree to limit cash payments to asylum seekers to 50 euros per month, while introducing uniformity in the state benefits payment card for asylum seekers. However, three states committed to a higher graduated cash payment say they will not be bound by decision.
Source: Info Migrants
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Council of Europe head warns of a return to the ‘wild state’
21 June 24
Outgoing Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejcinovic Buric warns that the rise of extreme nationalistic, populist and anti-rights movements are pulling Europe towards a ‘wild state’.
Source: Brussels Times
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK, France
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Finnish politicians condemn suspected racist attacks, calling for stronger anti-racism measures
20 June 24
Finnish president Alexander Stubb and other politicians call on the government to introduce a well-resourced anti-racism campaign after two suspected racially motivated attacks in the northern city of Oulu.
Source: Xinhuanet
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Finland
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UK elections 2024: Conservatives slammed over anti-migration ad on World Refugee Day
20 June 24
On World Refugee Day, the Conservative Party releases an ‘anti-migration election advertisement’ attacking ‘Labour’s approach to illegal immigration’. The video shows a red carpet being rolled out on a beach and is captioned ‘Don’t wake up to this on 5th July’.
Source: Middle East Eye
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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German conservatives urge clampdown on Ukrainian refugees’ benefits
19 June 24
In Germany, the CDU (Conservatives) call for welfare payments to Ukrainian refugees to be cut, as well as for them to be processed through the asylum system, arguing that the current situation is ‘difficult to communicate’.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Germany
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Labour Party tried to gag Black lawyer who wrote party’s own racism report
19 June 24
Media reports suggest that Labour party lawyers attempted to gag Black barrister Martin Forde, commissioned to carry out an independent inquiry into the party’s culture, by sending him a legal letter questioning his professional conduct after he gave an interview warning of a ‘hierarchy of racism’ in the party.
Source: Independent
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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The Spectre of Neo-Fascism: Virulent Anti-Roma Racist Wins A Seat in Brussels Assembly
17 June 24
The European Roma Rights Centre warns that László Toroczkai, recently elected in Hungary as MEP for the far-right Our Homeland Movement (6 per cent), is a virulent anti-Roma racist whose party propagates a national version of the great replacement theory on the grounds that Hungary must ‘not become a Gypsy country’.
Source: ERRC
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Belgium
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Reform UK candidate resigns over previous comments backing BNP
16 June 24
Grant StClair-Armstrong, standing as a Reform UK candidate in the general election, resigns after being exposed for previously urging people to vote for the British National Party.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Labour sends activists to 13 seats where it fears losing Muslim voters over Gaza
16 June 24
Labour directs party activists to campaign in 13 seats where it fears losing Muslim voters in the general election over its position on Gaza. The Muslim Vote organisation endorses a list of alternative candidates based on support for Palestine and action against Islamophobia.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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Some 4,500 people marched against far-right in Brussels
16 June 24
In Brussels, Belgium, thousands demonstrate against the surge in support for the far Right in national and European elections.
Source: Brussels Times
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Belgium
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Demonstrators across France protest against far-right ahead of snap elections
15 June 24
As a left-wing electoral coalition forms to isolate the far-right National Rally at the French general election, demonstrations against the far Right continue, with the CGT trades union claiming that 640,000 participated in 182 rallies.
Source: Le Monde
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: France
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Italian activist freed from Budapest house arrest after being elected MEP
14 June 24
Italian anti-fascist Ilaria Salis is freed from house arrest in Hungary after being elected to the European parliament and thereby gaining immunity from charges relating to an alleged attack on neo-Nazis.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Italy
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Protests sweep France against far right threat
13 June 24
Protests against the far-right National Rally’s European parliament gains and Macron’s decision to call a general election erupt across France, with police using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters who had set up barricades in Paris and Bordeaux. Buildings associated with the far Right are attacked.
Source: Freedom News
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: France
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Sweden, Finland and Portugal: The three defeats of the far right in the European elections
12 June 24
More European parliamentary (EP) election results show a breakthrough for S.O.S. Romania, which wins two seats. In Spain and Portugal, the far-right vote declines from previously national elections, though more EP seats are secured by Vox (+2, 6 total) and Chega (+2, 2 total). In Greece, the far-right Greek Solution secures one of its best results ever at 9.3 per cent, with 17.28 per cent in the northern region of Pella.
Source: El Pais
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Finland, Portugal, Sweden
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