“Immigration has amplified the germs of racial intolerance among young people in most of Europe," Marchetti says. Germany has criminalised neo-Nazi groups and outlawed the wearing of swastikas, but Nazi rock concerts continue to take place clandestinely and many skinheads congregate inside the National Democratic party. In Italy, the founder of Forza Nuova has had meetings with the leaders of other European far-right parties, including the BNP and Greece's Golden Dawn. In Hungary, the radical nationalist Jobbik party recently won 18% of the vote. The May European elections may have given the far right a chink of hope that they have a place in Europe. →Helsinki, Finland: Bern and Franziska usually spend their evenings in this pub

Photograph: Paolo Marchetti