00:00Far-right parties are growing in many European Union countries.
00:05They're set to make historic gains in June's European elections.
00:09But Europe's rising right-wing parties need to find unity
00:13if they are to wield greater influence on the EU stage.
00:17Experts tell Euronews.
00:19I am Georgia. I am a woman. I am a mother.
00:24I am Italian. I am Christian. You will not want me.
00:28Far-right parties are currently split into two groups,
00:32Identity and Democracy with Rassemblement Nationale,
00:35Liga and Alternative for a Dutchland.
00:38And European Conservatives and Reformists with Fratelli d'Italia,
00:43Vox and Law and Justice.
00:45What is in common among these parties?
00:48The first one is for sure the aversion against immigration.
00:52That is a very common element among these parties.
00:57The other one is Euroscepticism in the sense that
01:00all of them are against the fatal integration of European Union.
01:06The third one is the idea to represent the common people
01:12against liberal progressive establishment and against mainstream parties.
01:19Their deepest differences lie within foreign policies,
01:23their positions on the Ukraine war and the rule of law.
01:29Within ID you will find a lot of more pro-Russian parties
01:33while in ECR most parties are rather anti-Russian,
01:38rather stand with Ukraine in the current conflict.
01:42The Finnish radical right party even changed groups because of this issue.
01:48So they switched from ID to ECR.
01:51Both party groups have in recent years shifted in their degree of scepticism
01:57toward EU institutions in Brussels.
02:00Generally the parties in ID are more radical and more extreme sometimes also.
02:07They are really more far right.
02:09They are generally also more anti-European
02:12while in ECR you will also have some parties that are Eurosceptic
02:17but still quite constructive.
02:20Generally these parties also work within the European institutions
02:24and do not only oppose them.
02:27For this reason parties like Fratelli d'Italia are more likely to negotiate
02:31with the European People Party after the European elections.
02:35It is likely that the growth of the radical right will have an influence
02:39on EU policies like the Green Deal or migration.
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