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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Donald Trump speaking at the White House
Donald Trump speaking at a roundtable about antifa at the White House last week. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Where Donald Trump leads, Europe’s nationalists and far right follow. After a Truth Social post last month, when Trump announced the US would designate antifa, the decentralised anti-fascist movement, “a major terrorist organisation”, his international allies swung into action.

That same day, the Dutch parliament, where the largest party is Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV, passed a resolution, noting the US decision and calling on the government to declare antifa a terrorist organisation in the Netherlands.

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