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Extreme-right party gains shock prime minister Associated Press in Brussels Monday October 9, 2006 The Guardian (UK) The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, said he had work to do to lure voters back to his national coalition after local elections produced large gains for the extreme-right party Flemish Interest and dealt a blow to his re-election prospects next year. Mr Verhofstadt's Liberal Democrats lost votes mostly at the expense of Flemish Interest and the Christian Democrats. The extreme-right party, which ran on an anti-immigrant platform, has been kept in opposition in Antwerp by an unlikely rainbow coalition whose only common...

Violence flares as Dutch extreme right strengthens 15 December 2004 AMSTERDAM — Muslims have borne the brunt of politically-inspired violence as the extreme right in the Netherlands flexed its muscles in retaliation at the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in November. The sixth Racism and Extreme Right Monitor, which was published on Wednesday said the extreme right in the Netherlands has strengthened in the past two years. Problems with right-wing youth culture worsened and new political parties have been established, the report said. Leiden University and Anne Frank Foundation researchers found the number of extreme right-wing activists has increased,...

LONDON, July 16 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Police will consider Friday, July 16, what action to take against members of the British National Party (BNP) after they were filmed calling Islam "wicked" and confessing to assaults on Muslims. The BBC expose brought furious reactions from Muslims and the government, whose leader in Parliament said the BNP is "a vile party of Nazi thugs". It may also lead to criminal prosecutions, Reuters expected. In secretly recorded footages in the northern town of Keighley , BNP leader Nick Griffin - who recently hosted French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen -...

The FBI HQ main file on the John Birch Society is 62-104401 and it consists of about 12,000 pages. In addition, almost every FBI Field Office opened a main file on the Birch Society and those field files often were hundreds or thousands of pages. The primary FBI Field Office file is Boston 100-32899. Another major file is the Los Angeles field file (100-59001) which totals approximately 1800 pages. It is almost impossible to specify the total number of pages of FBI documents pertaining to the JBS because there are so many separate JBS-related files totalling many thousands of pages...

<p>Freedom Party. The staunchly anti-immigrant party of rightist Joerg Haider joined Austria's coalition government in 2000, prompting the European Union to hit the alpine nation with seven months of punishing sanctions. Although support has eroded from 27 percent to 16 percent, the party remains part of the ruling coalition, and Haider frequently has been criticized for statements perceived as anti-foreigner or anti-Semitic.</p>