The study carried out in Germany, France, Britain, the US, Sweden, and Finland by the Counter Extremism Project documents the emergence of a new far-right movement since 2014 that is 'leaderless, transnational, apocalyptic and oriented towards violence'.
BERLIN - Far-right militants in Europe and the US are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by the German foreign ministry said Friday.
And they are increasingly networking across national borders with other like-minded militants, including with Russian and East European extremists. "Right-wing extremism is the biggest threat to our security - across Europe," said German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Twitter.
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