With Mainstream Parties Struggling, Europe’s Nationalists Band Together
4/26/19
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from The Wall Street Journal,
4/26/19:
Far-right politicians, including Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen, promise to battle the EU.
Far-right politicians from around Europe held a rally in a historic square [Prague] here Thursday, addressing a modest crowd of a few hundred, but proclaiming a continent-sized ambition: to remake the European Union.
“The European Union is attempting to erase our nation states,” Dutch anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders, who shared the stage with French firebrand Marine Le Pen and others, told a smattering of flag-waving nationalists at the rally. “But we say no more to them!”
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