{"id":292063,"date":"2017-01-28T00:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T23:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/european-neo-fascists-gather-in-koblenz-germany-to-hail-trump-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2017-01-28T00:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T23:57:02","slug":"european-neo-fascists-gather-in-koblenz-germany-to-hail-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/european-neo-fascists-gather-in-koblenz-germany-to-hail-trump-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"European neo-fascists gather in Koblenz, Germany to hail Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>European neo-fascists gather in Koblenz, Germany to hail Trump inauguration<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>27 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On January 21, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as US president in Washington, a coalition of European far-right parties met in the German city of Koblenz to hail Trump\u2019s installation in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees included Marine Le Pen of France\u2019s National Front (FN), Frauke Petry of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Geert Wilders of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), Harald Vilimsky of the Austrian Freedom Party (FP\u00d6), and Matteo Salvini of Italy\u2019s Northern League. They all treated the coming to power of a violently nationalist and protectionist regime in Washington as support for their own political aspirations in Europe.<\/p>\n<p> The Trump administration has made clear that the cultivation of neo-fascists in Europe is a priority of its foreign policy. Trump has selected as his top adviser the white supremacist Stephen Bannon, who praised the FN during the presidential election campaign, and whose <em>Breitbart News<\/em> web site refers to the French New Right\u2014the ideological basis of the FN\u2014as a source of \u201cinspiration.\u201d He also hailed Marion Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen, Marine\u2019s niece, as a \u201crising star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mar\u00e9chal-Le Pen\u2014an extreme-right Catholic figure who has attended meetings of the Action Fran\u00e7aise, the descendant of the anti-Semitic Action Fran\u00e7aise of Charles Maurras that provided the basis of the Nazi-collaborationist Vichy regime\u2014publicly thanked Bannon after Trump\u2019s election. She tweeted, \u201cI answer yes to the invitation of Stephen Bannon, CEO of Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, to work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, it is ever clearer that the Trump administration\u2019s cultivation of far-right forces reflects more than just political&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/27\/conf-j27.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 European neo-fascists gather in Koblenz, Germany to hail Trump inauguration By Alex Lantier 27 January 2017 On January 21, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as US president in Washington, a coalition of European far-right parties met in the German city of Koblenz to hail Trump\u2019s installation in the White House. Attendees included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}