How to fight the far right

Two parallel developments in the European Parliament this month reveal much about the state of European democracy.

First of all, there is the "Fair Chair" campaign of Jens Peter Bonde MEP. He ran for the post of president of the European Parliament on a platform of fairness for all political groups. He complained that the most influential posts and the speaking time were being carved up between the two biggest groups, and that this was unfair on the rest. (He comes from a smaller gro...