AMERICAN FREE PRESS EXCLUSIVE: Relentlessly, election after election, right-wing idealism throughout the European Union appears to be on an upward trajectory. The resurgent far-right is a phenomenon the mainstream cannot ignore or overcome.

Disconcertingly for Washington, the future political landscape in the EU is more than a matter of the outcome of the American elections in November.

Europe’s right-wing parties tend to be pro-Russian, it is opposed to sanctions and sending aid to the Kyiv regime.

The ‘he likes me, he likes me not’ Trump effect appears to be an irrelevance. Whatever the consequence of the U.S. elections the political division between Europe and America is widening.

Washington’s further seclusion from global influence and markets can be supposed if the trend continues – and the swing to the right appears to be accelerating.

In many cases, European right-wing sentiment can be described as American conservatism on steroids.

It was with some anxiety that the European Union’s ruling pro-Washington bloc made up of 720 Brussels-neutered legislators awaited the outcome of the Austrian elections held on September 29.

A win by the nation’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) was predicted to be unlikely or narrow. For liberal mainstream media salvation was at hand.

This occurred during a pre-election rally of the Freedom Party when the rafters were raised by a spontaneous rendering of “Wenn alle untreu werden” (If all become unfaithful, we remain loyal).

Although composed in 1814, the traditional refrain has a similar cultural resonance to Dixie in the United States. It was virtually a National Socialist anthem.

The rendition of the ballad appeared to send a cannonball into Austria’s conservative electorate – enough to make the Freedom Party unelectable.

Yet, despite this apparent faux pas, the ultra-patriotic Freedom Party won its first-ever general election. It emerged three points ahead of Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party (OVP).

Herbert Kickl’s FPO garnered 29.2% of the vote. This represents a 13 per cent upward swing from the 2019 election and nearly doubles its parliamentary seats from 31 to 58.

Chancellor Nehammer’s luckless OVP lost 19 seats, winning 52. His party’s coalition accomplices, the Greens, lost 11 seats, winning only 15 mandates.

The result comes three months after the FPO defeated the OVP in the European Parliament election, winning 25.4% of the vote to 24.5%. As World War II RAF pilots often surmised: ‘A near miss is as good as a mile.’ 

Now under the leadership of Herbert Kickl, the party promised voters stiff immigration restrictions, including the remigration of uninvited foreigners, and vowed to use emergency powers to suspend the right to asylum.

Kickl’s views are far more extremist than those of your average far-right party. He stated throughout his campaign that he intended to turn his small nation of nine million into a “fortress” where “the right to asylum will be stopped”.

He wants to be able to withdraw the citizenship of refugees who fail to integrate and to introduce an emergency law that suspends the right to asylum, which would constitute a violation of the Geneva Conventions Act.

Kickl fiercely challenges EU sanctions on Russia. His party’s election posters described him as “Volkskanzler” or “people’s chancellor”, a term commonly associated with Adolf Hitler. He describes EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as a “warmonger.”

Austria’s inflation in the country could break the record of September 1975 and reach 8.7%. Inescapably, inflation is sanctions-related.

Herbert Kickl is a close ally of Euro-sceptic immigration hardliner Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. He is an avowed opponent of aid to Ukraine.

Austria’s FPO, Hungary’s Fidesz, and Czech opposition party ANO added considerable weight to an EU Parliament alliance in June.

Orban has vowed that the group, calling itself ‘Patriots for Europe’ will “very quickly become the largest faction of the increasingly formidable European right-wing.”

The FPO victory comes amid a radical shift to the right in European politics. After a resounding victory in the European Parliament election in June, France’s National Rally was only beaten in legislative elections in July by a deceitful strategic voting agreement between centrist and left-wing blocs.

Meanwhile in Germany, the AFD has won one state-level election and come a close second in two others this summer. Brussels at bay; in the Netherlands, the populist PVV is now the country’s largest party and the dominant faction in its current coalition government, formed in July.

The trend towards right-wing populism in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Portugal, Italy, Spain and other EU nations cannot be dismissed as a temporary phenomenon.

Not as long as immigration, Ukraine issues, sanctions and the increasingly totalitarian nature of the EU Brussels holds sway.

Overall, the voting trend signals a rejection of liberal totalitarianism and a return to democratic principles based on people’s power.

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