Fortress Denmark? After a fierce campaign battle over immigration, a social democratic stronghold takes a turn to the right.
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN SHOCKED THE WORLD ON APRIL 21 when he eliminated socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in the first round of France s presidential election. But Le Pen's triumph was merely the latest in a string of right-wing electoral victories that have embarrassed established social democratic regimes throughout Europe.
From Italy and Austria to Belgium and Holland, a populist, anti-immigrant, far-right movement, animated by nationalism and xenophobia, is gaining ground. And nowhere is the contrast between the old political discourse and the new more dramatic than in Denmark. ...
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