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Why the right is on the rise in Denmark
A splintered right wing might become a mass movement with significant working-class support by harnessing farmers’ discontent and longstanding opposition to the EU, the Danish Communist Party's KAREN SUNDS tells Morten Larsen

In Britain we may have election fever but Europe is going to the polls too — with the far right predicted to do well across the continent in elections to the European Parliament from June 6-9.

With our sister papers Junge Welt of Germany and Arbejderen of Denmark, we compiled a series of articles looking at the nature of the far-right threat across different European countries, of which this is the fourth. We would like to thank Junge Welt for organising the series and translation.

IF THERE isn’t a broad, cross-party opposition movement to the EU to organise the fight against the social spending cuts from Brussels and gather the people’s anger and frustration, “then it will be the right who will organise the resistance.”

Karen Sunds, chair of the Danish Communist Party’s (KP) EU committee is convinced of this, she warns Danish daily Arbejderen.

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