It's actually quite distinct. This party was founded in the 1950s by former Nazis and

Osce was in self-denial about being taken over by Germany during the Second World War, in fact in the beginning of the Second World War.

But this party has almost had Nazi members or Nazi sympathizers, and it's never shed this image. It's never modernised this image except to actually get rid of kind of some

corruption in the old old comfortable party politics the Stasis co in the post-Cold War era and the post-war era in Austria.

But this is a party that is even more, and it actually works very closely with the I of D. You've got to know this.

It works very closely with Orban's Party Fidesz in Hungary.

And it's working very closely and we've got to watch this next year in the Czech

Republic because the former Prime Minister Babish is a millionaire is coming back and he's running

high in the polls and he's very far right as well.

So we're having this constellation of the and plus the Slovak here under Fito.

So we have Slovak here, potentially Czech here. We have Austria now, we have Hungary now,

and we have also don't forget the Netherlands, and we have Le Penh racing in the rings.

I mean Europe is really not in good shape

when it comes to the whole immigration issue and the whole far right ring issue and

the Euro-sceptic issue. This is John Bachelor. My colleague Judy Dempsey of Carnegie Europe. She's in Berlin.

Comments on the significance of the surprise and not surprise election in Austria.

A party called FPO, Freedom Party, led by a man named Herbert Kickle.

Judy describes it bluntly.

Its Hitlerite past is important to it.

And so is its relations with Russia.

And then Judy does this the favor of listing the EU states,

the European states that are sympathetic to not only the FPO and the far right in Germany, but

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