Demise of the Euro-racists

[Ahknaton]

Xenophobia Scuppers EU Far-Right Group

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,517526,00.html

The Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group is no more. The bloc of far-right parties in the European Parliament has been disolved following a racism row: The Romanians refused to work with Alessandro Mussolini after her derogatory comments about their compatriots.

Italian MEP Alessandra Mussolini has caused the break up of the ITS group with her comments about Romanians.
The European Parliament's first far-right parliamentary bloc fell apart on Wednesday, less than a year after it had formed, after its Romanian members opted to leave the group -- ironically because of the racism of a fellow group member.

The Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group (ITS) was stripped of its official status because it fell short of the minimum of 20 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) needed to form a parliamentary group. The collection of xenophobes, Euroskeptics and far-right nationalists are now losing tens of thousands of euros in funding and will have less speaking time in parliament.

The collapse of the group was sparked by derogatory comments about Romanians by Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini and a member of the group.

Mussolini had told a Romanian newspaper that law-breaking had become "a way of life for Romanians" after the arrest of a Romanian man on charges of murdering the wife of an Italian naval officer in Rome two weeks ago. The crime led to the Italian government rushing through a decree that would allow police to deport EU citizens, particularly Romanians.

Last week the Greater Romania Party's five members announced they intended to withdraw from the bloc in protest at Mussolini's comments unless she were removed.

The formation of the far-right grouping had been made possible after Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union on Jan. 1, 2007, bringing with it five Romanian and one Bulgarian extreme-right MEPs into the parliament. The ITS group that was cobbled together included Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front from France and Belgium's Vlaams Belang. From the beginning there were doubts as to how long parties from various countries whose raison d'être is to oppose immigration and foreigners would manage to work together.

On Wednesday, as the parliament's Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott announced the group's demise, the parliament erupted into applause and cheers.

German MEP Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, said the ITS had never belonged to European democracy. "The good news is that the international of the ultra-nationalists no longer exists and cannot use the money of the European taxpayer to support its xenophobia and neo-fascism," he said.

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[raven]

Is Mussolini certain that the problem is really Romanians and not gypsies of Romanian nationality?

[Dan Dare]

It was always going to have to be a very large tent if it had to accommodate everyone from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. It seems that the ITS, like the EU itself, cast its net a little too wide.

[Niccolo and Donkey]

Is Mussolini certain that the problem is really Romanians and not gypsies of Romanian nationality?

It's her lack of distinction that set the Romanian rightists off.

[Jimbo Gomez]

That stupid bitch should have made that very obvious distinction yes.

[Ambrosio Spinola]

Now making that distinction would have double plus un-PC. Romanian rightist should know better and have pointed it out themselves.

[raven]

Now making that distinction would have double plus un-PC. Romanian rightist should know better and have pointed it out themselves.Yeah. Trashing Romanians isn't as unPC as trashing Romanian gypsies. It's more acceptable in the West for whatever reason to make bigoted comments about Europeans as opposed to gypsies and other "racial minorities". The distinction should be made. If Mussolini trashed Iberians when talking about Iberian gypsies (which there are plenty), I would be bloody pissed off as well. But unlike the Romanian rightists, I would have pointed out the distinction and forgiven Mussolini for her ignorance* (her not knowing how to make the distinction. It's understandable that people can confuse gypsies with the natives if they are not informed enough).

*And no I'm not using the word "ignorance" like a typical leftist idiot would. Ignorance means simply not knowing/being unaware/uninformed/misinformed/etc.

[Hakluyt]

This woman is supposed to be a serious politician? I can understand an average Italian making such remarks given recent events, but she knew very well how important Romanian support was for the party. They should have just kicked the Italians out... they'd still have had 21 members.

[raven]

This woman is supposed to be a serious politician? I can understand an average Italian making such remarks given recent events, but she knew very well how important Romanian support was for the party. They should have just kicked the Italians out... they'd still have had 21 members.They only needed to kick her out. Not all the Italians. She's the only hardline Neo-fascist among the Italians in EU parliament as far as I know. The other Italian nationalistic parties are more moderate and serious enough not to make ridiculous statements like that. Mussolini isn't beneficial towards this group. She is not only the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini (which shouldn't be held against her if she distanced herself from her grandfather's views) but openly Neo-fascist. For ITS: Five reasonable Romanian nationalists > 1 Neo-fascist Italian. One woman just cost the group a whole lot of influence in the EU parliament and funding. Good going. :rolleyes:

[Hakluyt]

You're right, I assumed she was leader of the party both members belonged to, but the other guy is from Fiamma Tricolore. They should have just kicked her ass out of there.

[Empress Cheesatine]

Infighting is our worst enemy. If someone is going to make nasty comments about other white folks, they need to be shown the door. Throw that bitch out.

[Jake Featherston]

Its difficult for me to believe some sort of accomodation won't be made that will allow a new far-right grouping to exist, either in the very immediate future, or as more and more ultra-nationalist MEPs get elected. When is the next EP election, anyway?

[harjit]

Infighting is our worst enemy. If someone is going to make nasty comments about other white folks, they need to be shown the door. Throw that bitch out.
The basic psychology of intolerance that causes a person to drift politically to the far right is going to express itself one way or another, ethnically or otherwise. The tendency to "exclude" is like eating and breathing for them.

[///M power]

well,she is right, if you don't believe her just go to Romania and see how Romanians are.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Romanians are no saints, true, but it's the gypsies who are at the bottom of the barrel, and she knows that. She should have spoken about them.

MP: imagine this: their kind has been kicked out of even more European cities than yours. :D

[///M power]

Romanians are no saints, true, but it's the gypsies who are at the bottom of the barrel, and she knows that. She should have spoken about them.

MP: imagine this: their kind has been kicked out of even more European cities than yours. :D

so at least they beat us in that area:rofl:

[raven]

The basic psychology of intolerance that causes a person to drift politically to the far right is going to express itself one way or another, ethnically or otherwise. The tendency to "exclude" is like eating and breathing for them.Exactly. This isn't even a WN party, it's a party of far right European political parties working together towards common goals in the EU parliament. And even then you still see infighting. It's ridiculous. It does seem that the tendency to "exclude" is like eating and breathing for them. Mussolini can believe whatever the hell she wants but she is a liability for this ITS party and should have been booted out. She can go sit alone in parliament if she wants. The 5 nationalistic Romanians are more important to this party than an openly neo-fascist granddaughter of Il Duce. The Union for Europe of the Nations is much more reasonable than this ITS party anyway.

[delete]

All this matter little.

What matters is that radical racist are created at faster rate than yesterday.

If this is the case, we have exponetial growth, meaning it will only be a matter of time before we constitute the majority of the whites at least.

[Niccolo and Donkey]

All this matter little.

What matters is that radical racist are created at faster rate than yesterday.

If this is the case, we have exponetial growth, meaning it will only be a matter of time before we constitute the majority of the whites at least.

LOL.....funny stuff.

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