Viktor Orbán’s crushing defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary election, with Peter Magyar’s Tisza party taking over 53 per cent of the vote to Fidesz’s 38 per cent, with results pointing to Tisza winning a crucial two-thirds majority with 135 seats in the 199-member parliament, is more than the end of a 16-year autocracy. It is a […]
Hungary’s general election – is Viktor Orban running out of road?
Tomorrow’s Hungarian parliamentary election is being described, with some justification, as the most consequential vote anywhere in the European Union this year. Viktor Orbán, who has held political power for sixteen years since the 2010 parliamentary election, is seeking a fifth consecutive term in office. The question is whether he will get it and, if […]
‘Gender-change’ neo-nazi fugitive arrested in Czech Republic
Marla-Svenja Liebich, the German neo-Nazi whose cynical exploitation of Germany’s gender recognition law Searchlight reported on in January, has been apprehended after eight months on the run. Czech police arrested Liebich in the town of Luby, close to the German border, on the basis of a European arrest warrant, a spokesman for prosecutors in the […]
Far-right ‘culture warriors’ plan Vienna summit
A network of European far-right extremists is set to converge on Vienna on 11 April for a conference billed as a defence of traditional Western values but which is, in reality, a gathering of far-right culture warriors, Holocaust deniers and open antisemites. The event, titled “U-Turn for Europe” (UT4EU), is being organised by Stefan Korte, […]
Georgia police arrest thirteen more neo-nazis as crackdown continues
Georgian police have made a second round of arrests in their investigation into neo-Nazi violence in Tbilisi, detaining a further 13 individuals, seven of them minors, on charges that now include torture, group violence, robbery, extortion, and illegal possession of firearms and explosives. When Searchlight reported in January on the first wave of arrests, 16 […]
UK-linked Holocaust denier defies french court
One of the world’s most notorious Holocaust deniers – well known to UK nazis and revisionists – was last week sentenced by an appeal court in Paris to 12 months house arrest. Vincent Reynouard will be required to wear an electronic tag and was ordered to pay €1,500 damages to the leading French anti-racist organisation […]