Article 12 Health care and welfare

But parties that are closer to assuming power are a different matter, even if banning them might automatically appear undemocratic (after all, they will already have deputies in parliaments). In one famous case, the European Court of Human Rights agreed with the banning of Turkey s Welfare Party while it was the senior member of a governing coalition.

But these facts do not count when wages are stagnating (as in the UK) or unemployment continues to rise (as in France). Populists can easily project these problems onto Europe, which in this case merely represents fear of the outside world in general.