Right-wing extremism has become a virulent phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe in the last years. Political parties like Hungary�s Jobbik and Ataka in Bulgaria won seats in national parliaments and succeeded in dominating parts of the political discourses. In these weeks the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung publishes a set of studies presenting the situation in most of the countries of the region by identifying the actors of right-wing extremism, their influence on the respective political landscape and state-driven or civil society-based counterstrategies. In neighboring Slovakia, the extreme right�s central issue and main mobilization tool is the strong anti-Roma rhetoric. Right-wing parties try to organize rallies and support local protest in places of difficult coexistence of the Roma minority with the majority population. In Hungary and Slovakia, right-wing extremism is reflecting each other with regard to territorial claims and the revision of post-World War I � peace treaties, causing challenges for the foreign policy of the two EU member states.