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The Center Right Goes Hardline On Immigration In Europe

The Importance Of The Immigration Issue The European Refugee crisis, which began in 2015, has provided significant challenges for mainstream political parties in Europe, both on the center left, the…

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13 min

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Beware! Populism in Conjunction with Conspiracy Theories Might be Bad for Your Health (Part 2)

Yet Germany, explored in the first part of this piece, is hardly an exceptional case. Take the United States. A recent study has shown that “rampant partisanship” has severely hampered…

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7 min

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How COVID-19 deflated the Austrian populist radical right

COVID-19 has fundamentally altered the logic of Austrian politics as refugees and the question of Islam in Austrian society have become largely irrelevant. Austrians like to think of their country…

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8 min

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The Normalization Of Far-Right Populism In Europe

A new coalition agreement in Austria highlights how bigoted, far-right policies are being embraced by mainstream political parties in Europe. The results of the elections to the European Parliament in May…

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10 min

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Austria’s Smoking Gun: Strache, “Ibiza-Gate”, and “Saint” Sebastian

Even such huge scandals which lead to the dissolution of a government, resignation of a Vice-Chancellor and the disclosure of massive corruption, might conclude with more of the same. On…

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1 min

Britain Alone: The self-inflicted darkest hour

In today’s CARR insights blog, Senior Fellow Professor Ruth Wodak is interviewed by the Another Europe podcast team – looking at Britain’s relationship with Europe. As the extension is granted,…

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4 min

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Contesting liberal democracy using the racialisation of space

Such proposals and appeals have not been seen or heard in Vienna and Austria since Nazi times. Every day, we are confronted with new provocations by the Austrian government which…

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5 min

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Back with a vengeance? One year with the radical right in government in Austria

The FPÖ is successfully tilling the field for a radical right turn of Austria, and it seems unlikely that the party will be manipulated into moderation again by the conservative…

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6 min

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Legislating Equality: Anti-Discrimination Policy in Europe

What does the rise of a radical-right party like the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) have to do with anti-discrimination policy in Europe? In the year 2000, after the FPÖ became…

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5 min

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The EU’s Putin Wannabes

The Austrian Habsburg Empire was famous for its motto: ‘not to lead wars but instead, to marry [and to colonize more territories]’; frequently repeated in Latin, bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria,…

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The Center Right Goes Hardline On Immigration In Europe

Beware! Populism in Conjunction with Conspiracy Theories Might be Bad for Your Health (Part 2)

How COVID-19 deflated the Austrian populist radical right

The Normalization Of Far-Right Populism In Europe

Austria’s Smoking Gun: Strache, “Ibiza-Gate”, and “Saint” Sebastian

Britain Alone: The self-inflicted darkest hour

Contesting liberal democracy using the racialisation of space

Back with a vengeance? One year with the radical right in government in Austria

Legislating Equality: Anti-Discrimination Policy in Europe

The EU’s Putin Wannabes

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Guillaume Faye, the “Golden One” and the Metapolitical Legion

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Has COVID brought about a far-Right dystopia?

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