Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini in the Chamber of Deputies, Rome, February 13, 2019. Zucchi/Press Association. All rights reserved.
The initial success of radical right parties such as the French Front National (FN) in the mid-1980s coincided with concerns about immigration flows into countries across Europe. Although the post-WWII guest-worker era had ended in the mid-1970s, immigration continued, mainly through family reunification.
