Étiquette : Far Right
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Romania’s Shock Vote: From Safe Pro‑European Course to a Far‑Right Tide
By Claudia Bădulescu, Free University of Brussels, Institute of European Studies. Shortly after one o’clock on the morning of May 5, 2025, the Central Electoral Bureau in Bucharest released near‑final figures from the first round of Romania’s presidential election. They read like the script of an improbable political thriller. George Simion, the thirty‑eight‑year‑old leader of the…
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Polish Presidential Elections: How Mainstreaming of the (Far) Right Continues.
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By Wojciech Albert Łobodziński, journalist. This article was first published in Cross-border Talks on the 24th of April 2024. Find the original article here : Polish Presidential Elections: How Mainstreaming of the (Far) Right Continues [Analysis] – Cross-border Talks. Less than a month before the first round of presidential elections in Poland, Rafał Trzaskowski, a candidate…
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Robert Fico at CPAC.
By Sean Hanley, University College London. This contribution is drawn from an article written by Sean Hanley on his webiste. Be sure to subscribe to it if you want to be informed of his future contributions and to support his work. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was a slightly unexpected new addition to yesterday’s Conservative…
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Central Europe is, both literally and figuratively, not in a good place.
By Sean Hanley, University College London. This contribution is drawn from an article written by Sean Hanley on his webiste. Be sure to subscribe to it if you want to be informed of his future contributions and to support his work. More than a century ago Czechoslovakia’s future founder-president wrote of the Problem of Small Nations in…
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Romania elects a do-over. What comes next?
By Alexandra Iancu, University of Bucharest. Romanian elections elicited tremendous interest. While the jury is still out on the legal and procedural aspects of the constitutional doctrine of militant democracy (banning candidates on the grounds of illiberal statements and actions, the annulment of the presidential elections), the events unfolding during the past months are, first…