Growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe from the late 2000s

The phenomenon of growing anti-immigrant sentiment The phenomenon has been identified in "most of the 27 EU countries" to Bettino Craxi. Thatcher attempted to fight back against anti-racism by advocating 'colour-blindness': famously ran on the poster of a Black British man with the slogan, "Labour calls him Black. We call him British."
Marxist professor Martin Barker coined the label "New racism" to denote this aspect of the ideologies that supported Margaret Thatcher rise in the UK, in which a public discourse depicting immigrants as a threat was alimented. Some scholars distinguish the "new racism" from the one that led to the rise of the Nazis, saying that the new one is based on cultural identity claims and lacks biological underpinnings. In derogatory labels began to be used on immigrants starting from the 1980s, like extracomunitari in Italy and gæstearbejdere in Denmark.
European parties and movements
In 2007, The Guardian said of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group in the European Parliament that it was an international grouping of extreme nationalist, ultra-right wing, and neo-fascist parties.
The parties advocating a cut in immigration quotas, who have also seen a rise in support, are , Party for Freedom (Netherlands), Vlaams Belang (Belgium), and True Finns (Finland). Similar parties and movements have gained support in Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia. have said that the European trend is "similar" and "shares common characteristics" with the Tea Party movement in the U.S. Some have disputed such comparison as incorrect.

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