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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EAF is dead! Long live the MENL!
The Front National has long been at the centre of pan-European party initiatives, which were always dominated by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Far-right violence in Greece: an effective response
More democracy and power to the people is a good starting point. Democracy is not weak or defenseless in Greece and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Overlooked and underrated: women in right-wing extremist groups in Germany
Right-wing extremism continues to be perceived by mainstream media and statutory organizations as a predominantly...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The human face
What are the human impacts of far-right extremism? Hear perspectives from a survivor of far-right violence and a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?More Hungarys in eastern Europe?
Viktor Orbán is a perfect populist who exploits the chameleon nature of populism like no other, from radical...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Desperate times call for desperate measures?”: the ‘Politics of anxiety’ and the rise of European ‘far right’ parties
What are we meant to conclude from the ‘rise of the far-right’? The narrative tells us that being objective,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Eurosceptic parties will save Europe’s soul, despite themselves
We must take seriously all the new parties in the European Parliament, not least because they might well be doing us...
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Published in: openSecurityNightmare politics
As the European election looms, far-right parties are seeking to exploit the fears of the losers of globalisation to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The divided house of anti-Europe
Right-wing Eurosceptic parties will have more MEPs than ever before in the next European Parliament. But this...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mythic origins or original sin? Euroscepticism and an ever closer reality
Euroscepticism is a strategically invented social construct – much like the myth of “ever closer union” itself – to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Goebbels effect
Let us stand still and recognize what has happened in the Dutch repudiation of Geert Wilders and embrace of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A black cloud over the EU?
The newly announced Le Pen-Wilders alliance in the European parliament has re-ignited speculation about the rise of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Swiss vote to curb immigration, and what it means for Europe
On February 9, Swiss voters narrowly approved the reintroduction of quotas on immigration, damaging Swiss-EU...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Feeding fascism in Greece: the memorandum, the state of exception and the police
The factors that contribute to the inexorable rise of fascism in societies, described here, have to be identified,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The conspiratorial mindset in Europe
Scepticism is healthy for democracy, but not when it degenerates into belief in conspiracy theories. Dieudonné and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Slovakia: right-wing extremism on the rise
Marian Kotleba, a well-known figure of the Slovak neo-Nazi scene, was recently elected as governor of the central...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The radicalisation of Flemish nationalism
The polarising strategy of the Flemish movement’s biggest political party places next year’s “mother of all...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Conservative culture and the far right in Poland
Most Poles agree that far right attacks are on the rise in their country, but the government and police are unable,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Winter chill over Hungary’s autumn
The only electoral promise Fidesz has fulfilled has been the “restoration of order”, through a myriad of laws,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The enemy within: Golden Dawn and Greek society
Over a week has passed since the arrest of several Golden Dawn MPs. So much has changed, and yet much remains the same.