Indicator in all countries

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?

• Austria

  Yes.

• Bulgaria

  Yes.

• Cyprus

  Yes

• Denmark

  Yes.

• Finland

  Yes, there is a political party identifiable as promoting an anti-migrant agenda.

• France

  Yes

• Germany

  Yes, there are political parties in Germany that express racist or xenophobic sentiments/discourse in the form of hate speech or promote an anti-migrant and/or anti-minority agenda. Yet, no such political party is represented in the German government or German parliament in 2012.

• Greece

  Yes. Golden Dawn is an extreme right party, of neonazi orientation, represented in the Greek Parliament with 18 seats (6,97%).

• Hungary

  yes

• 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.

• Italy

  Yes.

• Poland

  Yes.

• Portugal

  Yes, there are political parties that express xenophobic discourse and promote an anti-migrant agenda.

• Romania

  No parties which expressly assume such an agenda, through their statutes, could be identified. Yet, certain parties have been qualified as extremist in the course of time.

• 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.

• Spain

  Yes.

  Plataforma per Cataluña - 67 municipal councillors
  Democracia Nacional - 5 municipal councillors

  No representatives of racist or xenophobic parties in parliament.

• Sweden

  Yes, The Swedish Democrats (Sverigedemokrater, SD). The party polled 5.7% and won 20 parliamentary seats in the  2010 general election