In a January cover story, "Fear and Loathing Grips Europe," Searchlight editor Nick Lowles examines the reactions to and the implications of the vote to ban the building of minarets in Switzerland.
British National Party leader Nick Griffin is engaging in contortions and sleight of hand to keep his members happy and ensure they keep on giving him their money. Sonia Gable investigates for Searchlight magazine.
“An absolute nightmare,” is how one Labour Party official described the political situation in June 2009. In the weeks leading up to the European Parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom that June 4, internal polling indicated that the white nationalist British National Party (BNP) could benefit from a confluence of political events.
Elections in Europe’s poorest country, Moldova, at the end of July have brought changes to the political landscape and deepened the turmoil present since the heavily disputed re-election of a Communist government on April 5 was met with widespread rioting by pro-Romanian hooligans in the capital Chisinau, reports a Searchlight special corresponent in Chisinau.
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