BNP Chairman Nick Griffin Interviewed By Austria’s Freedom Party Newspaper

The entry of Turkey into the EU must be opposed at all costs, as it would at a stroke turn Islam into the dominant religion, something which can only end either in civil war or in the total subjugation of our European traditions, values and identity.

The Austrian Freedom Party’s MEP Andreas Mölzer has just completed a soon-to-be-published interview with BNP chairman Nick Griffin for their newspaper “Zur Zeit.” Topics covered included cooperation between European nationalist parties, Turkey, China, and Islam.

Andreas Mölzer: “How far should cooperation between right wing parties go at a European level?”

Nick Griffin:  We in the British National Party believe that this is both very important and inevitable. It is important for several reasons: Close and constructive co-operation between nationalists (we generally avoid the ‘right wing’ label, because it is outdated and unable to convey the subtlety of our political position as traditionalist opponents of globalisation) in the European nations has great potential to show the public that nationalism is not xenophobia and doesn’t have to lead to conflict and war as it sometimes has in the past.

Second, many of the problems that we face – both in terms of the relentless opposition we face in gaining power, and the things that we need to put right once we gain power – are common in all our countries. Hence experience and innovative techniques learned in one place can and should be exported elsewhere.

Third, several of the biggest of the long-term threats to our peoples are international in scope, and therefore to an extent need an international response. Issues such as the Islamic threat, the tide of Third World immigration, the growing economic and military might of China, and the looming energy shortage, are simply too big for any medium-size European country to deal with adequately in isolation.

It is inevitable because it is clear that the empire-building bureaucrats of the European Union plan to try to institutionalise federalism by in due course linking state funding of political parties and the very right to contest European elections to involvement in a pan-European party.

It is better that we begin to build such a structure now, before it is fully necessary, rather than having to throw something together at the last minute when we are actually forced to do so.

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2008-02-05