A quote from Helen Szamuely at EU Referendum, 27 August 2007

[W]hy is it that there have been far more problems with neo-Nazis and other unpleasantly violent and racist groups in the former GDR [German “Democratic” Republic, East Germany] than in the former FRG [Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany]? […] Another problem [EU] Commissar [for Justice, Freedom and Security and also Vice President of the European Commission, Franco] Frattini might like to ponder over is why this [violence by neo-Nazis] should be happening. Was the EEC/EC/EU not the organization that was going to do away with all political nastiness, particularly racism and xenophobia? Is there not an organization set up by a Regulation specifically to deal with the subject? Are there no directives about it? So why is the problem getting worse, if, indeed, it is getting worse?

[…] In any case, Frattini is spitting in the wind, if I may use such a vulgar expression. The last time there was an attempt to outlaw the NPD [Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands], the case was thrown out by the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, refusing to accept evidence from paid informers and agents provocateurs.