Worldview: History suggests that such pacts with the devil end badly
Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni: Brussels is already accommodating her and Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty
The latter may be facing EU fines and legal action over his erosion of Hungary’s rule of law, but that did not prevent him assuming the EU presidency last year to represent us on the world stage.and Croatia, or as parliamentary props to a government in Sweden. In the Czech Republic one is on track to win elections and lead a coalition later this year. And Belgium has just seen appointed a first government led by a secessionist nationalist party, albeit not far-right.
Perhaps most dramatically, the taboo on collaborating with the far-right has in the last fortnight been breached in Germany and France, when the conservative opposition Christian Democratic Union and the governing centre-right administration of François Bayrou have relied on the far-right to swing key parliamentary votes.
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