ABSTRACT
Right-wing extremism and terrorism currently pose major threats to European democracies. In the fight against right-wing extremism and terrorism, European security agencies are confronted with entirely new forms of right-wing extremism such as right-wing networks operating on the internet, self-radicalizing lone wolf terrorists and right-wing extremist movement such as the “Identitarian movement” who aim to popularize right-wing extremism: Populist right-wing extremist and new-right-wing movements who try to familiarize the mainstream of society with right-wing extremist ideology by covering themselves in a modern dress and politically instrumentalizing and infiltrating protest movements represent a real problem for society and national intelligence services alike. Furthermore, the internet as risk factor for the radicalization of right-wing lone wolf terrorists and as a means to promote conspiracy theories, new-rightist contents and right-wing extremist ideological elements poses a tremendous present and future challenge for the national security agencies.
