EU Claims Russia Supports European Right-Wing Parties and Movements
European Union leaders are going to discuss “intelligence” which they claim supports allegations that the Russian government helps “European far-right parties and movements.”
The far-fetched claims form part of a large campaign against Russia, which has included the closing down of Russian state broadcaster RT’s bank accounts in Britain.
According to an article in the Financial Times (FT), EU leaders “are to discuss covert Russian funding of far-right and fringe parties in Europe in light of intelligence findings that show that Moscow is interfering in European domestic politics” on October 21.
Senior EU diplomats told the FT that the intelligence agencies of “several” countries had stepped up scrutiny of possible links with Moscow.
“It’s a serious concern. It becomes an existential concern,” a senior diplomat involved in preparations for the talks told the newspaper.
Opinion against Russia has sharpened since the attacks on the ISIS-held Syrian city of Aleppo—because the EU would rather support the terrorist ISIS against the Syrian government.
Other examples referred to in the article include a 2014 loan of €9 million to France’s Front National from a Russian bank. The FT claimed that the bank was “said to be close to Mr. Putin.”
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