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Conservatives had little time to gloat. The 25.6% vote won by the ruling coalition of neo-Gaullists and center-rightists was a sharp rebuke in contrast to the 39.5% it had scored in last year's legislative polls. Moreover, the government's pro-European stance was undermined by an anti-Maastricht movement headed by conservative Deputy Philippe de Villiers. Last week's wan showing and the fading chances of a leftist victory next year are likely to crack the right's brittle unity. Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur could be joined in the race for the Elysee by the neo...
...right collected upwards of 10% of the vote in some elections in France, Italy and Germany. Five members of the far right National Alliance hold seats in the new Italian government. Skinheads decked with swastikas continue to terrorize foreigners in Germany, Italy, Britain and Spain. While the number of neo-Nazis and neofascists in Western Europe remains minuscule, ugly pictures of straight-arm salutes, street hooligans and racial hatred are haunting reminders that the old ideologies are not dead...
Nowhere are neo-Nazi outbursts more unsettling than in Germany. In one week in May, German authorities recorded the beating of a Zairian asylum seeker in Halle, the torching of a Turkish kindergarten near Bonn, the vandalizing of a Jewish cemetery near Wurzburg, five arson fires at a refugee shelter in Hauzenberg and the arrests of 26 neo-Nazis for chanting "Sieg Heil!" during a party in a Berlin suburb. Such occurrences have become so commonplace they rarely make the front pages and are simply considered a routine part of the German political landscape...
...elsewhere in Europe, the skinheads in Germany have an impact on fringe politics. While far-right parties, such as the Republikaners, eschew violence and discourage stiff-arm salutes, they profit politically from the < undercurrent of anti-immigrant and nationalist sentiment stirred up by the neo-Nazis. The Republikaners have scored as high as 15% in local elections, and charismatic party leader Franz Schonhuber, who served in Hitler's SS, is a member of the European Parliament...
Millionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, 57, took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Italy's 53rd post-World War II government. He named a Cabinet that included, as expected, members of the neo-Fascist National Alliance...