The Legitimization Process of the French National Front and its Migration Policies
In Europe, especially in the last three decades, we have witnessed the rise of far right and populist political parties and movements, which spread to many European Union countries as a disease. France is one of these countries. The French National Front (Front National-FN) is one of the first far right political parties founded after the World War II in Western Europe and constituted a role model and the leading example for most contemporary extreme right movements and political parties in Europe (Rydgren, 2003:45-68). Many parties have adopted the discourses and slogans of the National Front (Mudde, 2012: 4). Therefore, it has an important impact on the contemporary European politics.
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