Domestic Extremism in Europe - Athena Institute

hostility. The New Hungarian Guard in Hungary is a
good example for this phenomenon.
The remainder of groups intensively spread hostile
propaganda, securitize socioeconomic issues and actively
try to affect the mainstream political sphere by them-
selves, or through far-right/left parties. Moreover, they
reach certain individuals (e.g. Breivik) through aforemen-
tioned new means of communication and radicalize
them, which makes them complicit in their murderous
attacks.
All the key challenges posed by domestic extremism, all
the misconceptions that surround it, and all the changes
in the threat environment that have been described by
this paper contribute to shocks in domestic politics, the
democratic political system and national/public security.
Mainstream politicians are yet to provide satisfying an-
swers to the challenges posed by the rise of far-right/left
parties in the past decade, or by explicit extremist groups.
Since centre parties have to compete against these newly
risen extremist parties, they are slowly shifting towards
the edges and implement illiberal immigration policies or
very tough penal codes, thus criminalizing poverty and
minorities.
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