Right-Wing Terrorism and Extremism as a Growing Threat to European Security
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https://doi.org/10.31861/mediaforum.2024.14.89-105Keywords:
right-wing terrorism, extremism, threat of terrorism, European securityAbstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the growing threats of legal terrorism and extremism in Europe, the problem of the penetration and spread of extremism in the institutions of European democracy, which endangers the stability of democratic development and the preservation of liberal values.
Researchers state that over the past twenty years, we have observed an increase in the right-wing terrorist and extremist threat in the countries of Western Europe, in particular, Italy, Germany and France - countries with a long history of terrorism and extremism. At the same time, it was the fascist regimes of Germany (German National Socialism) and Italy (Italian fascism) of the first half of the 20th century that became the historical predecessors of modern right-wing extremism. At the beginning of the 21st century, the success of right-wing radical parties in the elections in these countries created favorable conditions for the activation of far-right parties, which, according to experts and scientists, posed a threat to European democracy.
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