After Breivik went amuck in Norway, the police cracked down on conservatives.
A little later on, it’s pretty obvious that Breivik was run by the left.
Same process globally.
Arguing Euro left and right is a tar baby argument that you have no hope of winning because the words don’t mean the same things in continental Europe as they do in English speaking nations.
Pym Fortyun was the “far right” Dutch politician murdered by a muslim. Fortyun was a flaming homosexual who held some conservative stances by Dutch standards. By our standards he would have been marginally to the right of Obama.
I dated a Serbian woman who thought she was quite far left until she came here and found herself to be more comfortable with people who are right to right moderate.