2011
Are there political parties that express racist or xenophobic sentiments/discourse in the form of hate speech or promote an anti-migrant and/or anti-minority agenda?
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Austria
Yes.
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Bulgaria
Yes.
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Cyprus
Yes
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Denmark
Yes.
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Finland
Yes, there is a political party identifiable as promoting an anti-migrant agenda.
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France
Yes
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Germany
Yes.
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Greece
Yes.
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Hungary
yes
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Ireland
In general, parties with the expressed aim of having an anti-minority/anti-migrant aganda do not exist in Ireland. Occasional comments by individual politicians within the main parties occur.
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Italy
Yes.
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Poland
Yes.
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Portugal
Yes, there are political parties that express xenophobic discourse and promote an anti-migrant agenda.
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Romania
We could not identify a party which assumes an anti-migrant/anti-minority agenda. Reports do however speak of extremist parties or parties spreading racial stereotyping and hate speech.
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Slovenia
Yes. The presence of the extreme political parties that promote nationalism and xenophobia was more obvious in 1990s. Later, most of these extreme parties disappeared from the political scene. Still, one of them, the Slovenian National Party (SNS) has been since 1992 until last elections in December 2011 represented in the Parliament. Also, xenophobic and racist discourse in its subtle form has been integrated in the work of allegedly centrist/moderate political parties.
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Spain
Yes.
Plataforma per Cataluña - 67 municipal councillors
Democracia Nacional - 5 municipal councillorsNo representatives of racist or xenophobic parties in parliament.
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Sweden
Yes, The Swedish Democrats (Sverigedemokrater, SD). The party polled 5.7% and won 20 parliamentary seats in the 2010 general election