This is revealed in a new report presented in London by Action for Democracy, a US-based non-profit organisation

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The Authoritarian Collaboration Index, for example, traces the evolution of relations between Reform UK, the party led by Nigel Farage, and Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, which have formalised a partnership with a commitment to tackle immigration together in the run-up to a possible election victory. The two parties agree that sovereignty takes precedence over international law, including the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Another revelation is that the AfD, Germany’s far-right party, has been dependent on Russian funding since 2016, but the flow of money has increased over the last six months and the link with Moscow has intensified in tandem with their electoral success. Following the AfD’s recent victories in the local elections in Saxony-Anhalt, “Russia’s support has gone far beyond traditional funding, evolving into a close dialogue that recognises the AfD’s importance as a future governing party”.

These parties, which also include Vox in Spain, have not formed a single bloc but prefer to strengthen bilateral ties, which give them greater legitimacy, whilst employing common tactics and methods.

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“What emerges from the report is that an increasingly dense network of collaboration is forming between governments, parties and authoritarian movements at a global level, one that utilises every possible means of repression,” explained Domonkos Kovacs, head of the Authoritarian Collaboration Index and director of Action for Democracy. “ ‘These movements used to be isolationist, but they have now learnt to collaborate using technology and social media. The only possible response is to establish an equally intensive collaboration between democratic parties, governments and movements.’

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Beyond Europe

Looking beyond Europe, the report emphasises that ‘although China and Russia remain the main pillars of the global axis of autocracy, other states are playing an active role in exporting surveillance and control tactics to Africa and South-East Asia’.

At the presentation, Jesus Armas, the former leader of the opposition in Venezuela, who was imprisoned and tortured for a long time by Nicolás Maduro’s government, said that his country still has a long way to go before it can return to democracy, but that Maria Corina Machado’s recent return home bodes well.

Carmen Lau, a Chinese dissident living in exile in the UK with a $1 million bounty on her head imposed by the Hong Kong Government, highlighted just how pervasive Beijing’s global influence is and criticised the British Government for failing to speak out against the repressive regime in its former colony.

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  • amol ( amol@piefed.social ) English
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    13 hours ago

    When will we learn that Europe should do the interests of Europe and not of someone else?..

    it’s really sad that people consider reasonable to vote for someone who has as a stakeholder a foreign entity with zero interest in Europeans well being

    • Sina ( Sina@beehaw.org ) English
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      12 hours ago

      The issue is that voters see that nearly all politicians are extremely fallible and corrupt. Our criticisms of AfD and co. are very justified, it’s just that their opponents tend to often just follow whatever their sponsors or lobbyist say. So basically you have two main sides where one may be a significantly worse bad, but social media is largely on their side & some of the parroted talking points actually make sense.

      (I agree with you that following evil autocrats is worse though, no doubt about that. )

  • TheBrideWoreCrimson ( TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ) English
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    2 days ago

    Another revelation is that the AfD, Germany’s far-right party, has been dependent on Russian funding since 2016, but the flow of money has increased over the last six months

    This neatly explains not only why I’ve seen fascists in Germany don Russian camo at work, but also the huge increase of blatant displays of fascism - “Reich” flags, runes and so on - since this year’s spring in particular. I’ve really been wondering about that sudden change.
    Social media is 100% a lost cause, but real life is almost as bad. This is not the Germany from 2025. It’s like a giant switch has been flipped. The fascists are everywhere now, they’re loud and enormously aggressive, and they’re hellbent on getting into power.
    It feels like we’re sitting on a giant powder keg. The fuse has been lit, but nobody knows when it will all blow up!

    • Ooops ( Ooops@feddit.org ) English
      3·
      2 days ago

      Time for actions?

      No.

      Just like the far-right most of the democratic parties are also paid, just by corporations instead of foreign countries. And actual policies that benefit the voters do not match with their master’s goals either. Which is the reason they are trying to embrace the far-right’s populist tactics and narratives instead to stay in power.

      Unfettered capitalism leading to fascism is no coincidence but a logical conclusion.

    • dzsimbo ( dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz ) English
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      2 days ago

      I’d love to see some ‘passive’ defence, but I can’t imagine it really happening without certain exchanges in freedom. I’m thinking mostly facebook and future digital infrastructure. Maybe we could develop an in-house open LLM. We also need RAM, but we’ll have federation before proper chip maufacturing.