EU becoming less tolerant, NGO (Human Rights Watch) says

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Racist mobs in Greece and Hungary, mistreatment of Roma, Arab migrants and Muslim terrorist suspects and a feeble reaction by EU institutions point to a worrying right-wing shift inside the European Union, according to US-based NGO Human Rights Watch.

The most shocking racist attack in Europe last year saw Norwegian Anders Breivik kill 77 people in what he called a campaign to stop the continent being taken over by Islam.

In less-well documented incidents, a far-right mob in Greece in May stormed a Pakistani suburb hospitalising 25 people, some with stab wounds. In April in Hungary, the Red Cross evacuated 277 Roma because right-wing vigilantes held military-type drills beside their homes.

The report named and shamed nine EU member states - France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK - as displaying a swing toward right-wing politics on issues ranging from asylum seekers to gay rights. France and Italy continued to expel Roma in a campaign of "discriminatory targeting" accompanied by "racist and xenophobic political discourse."

http://euobserver.com/22/114978

Maybe this will shake EU institutions up so that they start to deal more effectively with right wingers who target immigrants, Roma, gays, asylum seekers - anyone whom a "teabagger-type" could consider an "other".

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1. Just yesterday, I was saying it's generally the RW that pulls out the violence card. How often

does one hear of LW violence like this. Yep, it's there, but not prevalent like all of the RW violence and threats of violence that go on all of the time IMO.

[pampango]

2. The violent segments of societies everywhere do seem to gravitate to the RW and its issues. n/t