Euroright. The Extreme Right in the European Integration Process, 1979-1989

This chapter aims at analysing the idea of Europe that was developed by extreme right organisations and reconstructing the main attempts they made to establish cooperation at the European level during the Cold War period, with an emphasis on the Second Cold War period from 1979 to 1989. Despite the electoral irrelevance of most of them in that period, their earlier international contacts and thoughts on Europe are worthy of attention, not least because of the impact they made on the European cultural and political landscape in the 1990s and the 2000s. The main primary sources for this research are documents from the Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) stored in the Historical Archives of the Ugo Spirito Foundation in Rome. The main secondary sources are volumes available in the Library of the Ugo Spirito Foundation in Rome, the Library of the European University Institute in Florence and the Central Library of the European Commission in Brussels and articles from Italian, French, British, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian and Luxembourgian magazines and newspapers collected in the European Parliament Press Cuttings Fond at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence.