No rise of the right-wing parties in EU after 2001?

What if Australian style immigrations laws had been implemented in most W-European countries by 1960?
Could that have prevented the rise of rightwing anti-immigrations parties in the 2000s in W-Europe?

Cause we saw in OTL that rightwing parties had success in countries like Denmark, Netherlands and France riding on a anti-immigration platform in OTL?
 
Well, what are the Australian immigration laws?


BTW, Right-wing anti-immigration succes in The Netherlands is only a speed bump. you just wait for the socialist revolution.
 
What if Australian style immigrations laws had been implemented in most W-European countries by 1960?
Could that have prevented the rise of rightwing anti-immigrations parties in the 2000s in W-Europe?

Cause we saw in OTL that rightwing parties had success in countries like Denmark, Netherlands and France riding on a anti-immigration platform in OTL?
What do you mean by this, exactly? Never really heard about the Austrian immigfration laws, and can't quickly find info about it.

Though I don't think the exact Austrian system (whatever it is) would be effective. There's both a significant amount of immigrants (9. 8%) in Austria, as well as a quite prominent rightwing populist anti-immigration party (FPÖ), which has been the way it is now since the early 90s.
If anything, Austrian style immigration laws might be counter-productive. :rolleyes:
 
From what I'm told the "Australian" not Austrian (please check your glasses!) is like this

You can only move to Australia if you have skills, like skilled worker, academic etc
 
What if Australian style immigrations laws had been implemented in most W-European countries by 1960?
Could that have prevented the rise of rightwing anti-immigrations parties in the 2000s in W-Europe?

Cause we saw in OTL that rightwing parties had success in countries like Denmark, Netherlands and France riding on a anti-immigration platform in OTL?

What success? :confused:
They made headlines few times and won some elected offices, but they haven't exactly become the movers and shakers of European politics.
 
From what I'm told the "Australian" not Austrian (please check your glasses!) is like this

You can only move to Australia if you have skills, like skilled worker, academic etc
:eek::rolleyes:

Well, 'move' can mean alot of things. There doesn't need to be permanent settlement involved, at least not initially.

In the 70s and later, many Western European nations attracted lower-educated people from very different cultural backgrounds to boost their workforce for low-pay jobs. It was the intention that, after making some money, those workers (Gastarbeiter et al)would return to their own country, so no integration (or even learning the language) was allowed. Ofcourse, thanks to the social laws that were funded by the then-quite-good economy (thanks, partially, to the immigrants :rolleyes:) and several other reasons, a lot of those immigrants stayed, leading eventually to the current situation.

Seeing this, it's rather hard to see governments restricting immigration of lower-educated persons at that point in time. Europe and Australia are very different continents when it comes to immigration, so it's not that applicable.
 
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