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Why Does the Radical Right Oppose European Integration?

Right-wing opposition to the European Union, rooted in the perception that integration and all kinds of international cooperation are a threat to the nation-state and its sovereignty, is evident and…

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7 min

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The deadly political game being played at the EU’s eastern border

On Sunday 19 September, four people were found dead at the border between Poland and Belarus, the latest development in a diplomatic stand-off that has lasted more than a month. In August,…

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6 min

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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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5 min

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The Italian Far Right’s Long-Term Investment

When the government led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was unable to find eleven lawmakers willing to join its ranks in the house of representatives in order to keep his…

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9 min

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Spain’s radical right party might need some recovery from the coronavirus

Neither widespread popular disaffection with the government nor equally widespread disenchantment with thhave helped Vox advance in the polls. Spain is among the western European countries hardest hit by the…

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8 min

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How the European Union Lost Italy to the Radical Right

Polls show that the COVID-19 crisis, and particularly the EU’s more than hesitant response to it, has soured Italians’ views of the European Union. In no country in Europe has…

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5 min

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What Drives the Center Right’s Electoral Success?

Center-right parties recognized the 2008 economic crisis as a time of greater voter volatility when the populist radical right sought to secure more support through appeals over immigration. The 2008…

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4 min

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It’s Time for a New European Approach to Social Policy

The EU needs to regain control of the political debate around social welfare, which has been masterfully monopolized by European populist parties in the last decade. The European economy is expanding for…

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4 min

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Europe from the far right

Finding commonalities and differences between far right parties has been a long-standing challenge for scholars of the party family. In recent years, ‘Euroscepticism’ has emerged as one shared feature of…

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4 min

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Populism in Power: The Italian Case

The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has recently announced his resignation after 14 months of the so-called Government of change. This political crisis offers us the opportunity to turn our…

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Why Does the Radical Right Oppose European Integration?

The deadly political game being played at the EU’s eastern border

The Center Right Goes Hardline On Immigration In Europe

The Italian Far Right’s Long-Term Investment

Spain’s radical right party might need some recovery from the coronavirus

How the European Union Lost Italy to the Radical Right

What Drives the Center Right’s Electoral Success?

Europe from the far right

Populism in Power: The Italian Case

The Myth Of Lone Wolf Terrorism

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An Exception no more: Identifying the origins of the radical-right appeal, the case of Chega in Portugal

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