Derkach, M. A. Extreme Right Parties in the Seventh and Eighth European Parliament

Abstract: The subject under research is the modern European extreme right parties that have achieved their representation in the seventh and eighth European Parliament. The choice of the research subject is determined by the fact that under the present growth of popularity of extreme right parties in Europe, most researches devoted to their electoral results are focused on studying these parties in terms of their activity at the national and, rarely, municipal levels, while the activity of these political forces at the general European level including that in the European Parliament is practically left without analysis. Using the comparative method, M. Derkach analyzes the results of their elections to the European Parliament in 2009 and 2014 as well as their coalition policy, i.e. participation in formation of the deputy group of the European Parliament. The author concludes that elections of 2014 did not demonstrate a signifi cant rise in extreme right moods among European electors. At the same time those elections outlined the deepening the split inside the family of extreme right parties and demonstrated the presence of insuperable (at least at this stage) contradictions in associated political forces.

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