Far-right politics

Long-time member of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) Jovo Ostojic has died, the party announced on Friday.

According to the SRS website, Ostojic passed away last night after a short illness.

German police recently raided the homes of 36 people accused of writing “hateful” posts on social media, with most of the raids targeting right-wing individuals.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Develt Bahçeli has stressed the importance of a swift conclusion to the trials of suspects in the case into the July 2016 coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen. 

A member of Golden Dawn standing trial with other officials and supporters of the far-right party was sentenced on Tuesday to seven months in prison over a remark addressed to the mother of Pavlos Fyssas, the rapper killed by a party member in September 2013.

Four rights groups have submitted a motion to sue with a Supreme Court prosecutor over a spate of recent attacks against migrant workers in the industrial town of Aspropyrgos, west of Athens.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has emphatically refused to grant permission to extreme-right party Golden Dawn to stage an event at the Chorofylaki park in the suburb of Goudi.

"There is no way that Golden Dawn will be granted the park," Kaminis told a meeting of the city council Thursday.

The proceedings of the Greek Parliament have been halted after a serious incident that took place between the Golden Dawn MP Kasidiaris and the New Democracy MP Dendias a few minutes ago.

A professor of constitutional law testified on Wednesday as a witness for the prosecution at the ongoing trial of Golden Dawn, saying that the far-right party's ideology informed its criminal activities.

According to Nikos Alivizatos, Golden Dawn "wanted to addict us to the daily use of violence," and said that violent incidents rose drastically after 2012 when it entered Parliament.

Yet another new political force has emerged in France, Emmanuel Macron, sending a frisson of relief through the European establishment after he managed to snatch the first round of the French presidential election from Front National leader Marine Le Pen.

An opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) dissident politician has said the MHP "is our home," signaling that the renegaded group was not considering establishing a new party.  

"The MHP is our home and a mother's bosom. My friends and I don't have a plan B," Koray Aydın said on April 20.