How Viktor Orbán Is Fighting – And Losing – The Digital Battle In Hungary
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungary’s Fidesz Party have launch a Fight Club digital media campaign — and they are getting beaten at it.
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Mamdani’s New York Win: A Template to Vanquish Destructive “Populism” in the US, UK, and Beyond
Zohran Mamdani’s lesson: “If progressive politics can get its act together, then assumptions of Trumpist and divided America can be upended”
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Ukraine War, Day 1,196: Kyiv Again Strikes Putin’s Prized Kerch Bridge
Ukrainian forces again strike Kerch Bridge, Vladimir Putin’s flagship symbol of his quest to conquer Ukraine, in large explosion on Tuesday.
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How to Counter the Hard Right’s “Flooding the Zone”
Countering politicians, mainly from hard right populist movements, who “flood the zone” to dominate news cycle & divert attention from issues.
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Why Fear Overtook Hope in 2024’s Elections Around The World
“Fear is easier to sell than hope when institutions seem to be failing. To reclaim hope, politicians must dare to dream, disrupt, & inspire.”
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EA on The Tonight Show: Can France’s Far Right Be Contained?
Analyzing first-round outcome of France’s elections for the National Assembly, and whether far-right Rassemblement National can be contained in the second.
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Is France’s Far Right the “New Normal”?
After 20 years of governance from “traditional” parties to Macron, is it still possible in France to stem a dynamic in which far right is the “new normal”?
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EA on WION: The Forthcoming Elections in the UK and France
Elections in UK and France: Governments in trouble, but big differences in challengers – far right in France, center in UK – and in Britain’s Brexit burden.
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EA on Times Radio: Explaining “Patchwork” Outcome of Europe’s Elections
Knocking back headlines of “far right surge” to explain “patchwork” outcome in elections, varying from country to country across Europe’s 27-nation bloc.
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How Far Will Hungary’s Far Right Go?
“If Mi Hazánk is successful in this week’s elections, its conclusion for Hungary: the far-right has never been more wrong in thinking that they are right.”
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“We Are The Firewall”: The Germans Mobilizing Against The Far Right
Germans rally v. threat of far right AfD: “Healthy society does not need politicians singling out and threatening ‘others’. The call should be for humanity”
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Reality Mugs Giorgia Meloni’s Radical Right Politics
Giorgia Meloni’s populist radical-right party is in power in Italy — but she finds it is subject to same external constraints as any other administration.
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Why France’s Far Right Is Attracting The Left’s “Chameleon” Voters
Why is the emblematic supporter of France’s left-wing organizations travelling towards the far right party of Marine Le Pen, especially in the northeast?
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“If One Sheep Crosses The Dam”: Will Dutch Politics Lurch Hard to the Right?
Will the liberal confines and “stability” of The Netherlands be broken in November’s elections? A look at the issues and parties — including the far right
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A Far-Right Chancellor in Austria? It’s Possible.
“4 years ago, Austria’s far-right Freedom Party appeared to consign itself to scandalous past. But now, there is a belief that tomorrow belongs to them.”
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The Challenge for Irish Republicans v. Ireland’s Far Right
“No longer are Irish Republicans just positioned v. Northern Ireland’s union with Britain. They also want to be frontline opponents of far right in Ireland.”
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Is Ireland A Firewall Against Far-Right Politics?
“For now the far right’s message is failing to resonate in an Ireland which can legitimately claim to be a country standing against political extremism.”
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Italy’s Radical Right Meloni Moment
I answered the questions of Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Isabell Hoffmann about Sunday’s...
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EA/EuroFile VideoCast: Italy’s Slide Into Far-Right Autocracy
Rula Jebreal on Italy’s slide into autocracy & wider context of far right — politics, disinformation, and threats — from Europe to the Middle East to US
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Facing The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Portugal
Beyond the success of ruling center-left Socialist Party is a question for Portugal’s politics: how do you deal with the rise of radical right-wing populism?
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Europe’s Right-Wing Populist Parties Adjust to a Ukraine Challenge
“Ukraine Invasion shows adaptability and flexibility are strengths for populist parties on European radical right. Opponents should not underestimate that.”
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VideoCast: PiAP’s Report Card on Right-Wing Populism, 2 1/2 Years Later
Is radical right-wing populism on the rise across Europe? How should we begin to assess parties through organization, tactics, and popularity with voters?
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Why Europe’s Right-Wing Populists Aren’t Ready to Leave the EU
Why Europe’s right-wing populists prefer to focus on more tangible issues like immigration rather taking risk of calling for departure from European Union.
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Italy’s Radical-Right Populism is Not “Fascism”
A discussion of radical-right populism in Italy and Switzerland, Silvio Berlusconi, effect of Coronavirus on populist politics, & meaning of “illiberalism”
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Right-Wing Populism in Europe Is A “New Normal”: An Interview with Daniele Albertazzi
“I am not saying that right-wing populists are new normal everywhere. But this is the direction of travel, and it is important to analyse what is happening.”
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The Finns Party Risks Becoming a “Corona Party”
Caught between Government measures and anti-vaccination movement, the Finns Party’s wait-and-see approach risks controversy of becoming “a corona party”.
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Belgium’s Right-Wing Populists Defy Expectations Over Coronavirus
Belgium’s populists Vlaams Belang “bucks Coronavirus expectations by neither amplifying the sense of alarm or encouraging scepticism about experts”.
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Swiss People’s Party Walks a Fine Coronavirus Line Between Government and Opposition
In the Coronavirus pandemic, the Swiss People’s Party is still walking a very fine line between being in government and performing the role of an opposition.
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Populism’s Exploitation of Insecurity: A Look at France
How does populism exploit insecurity for hostility towards “elites” and the “enemy”? An answer through Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France
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The Finns Party Is Changing Its Leader
Finns Party successful leader Halla-aho steps down, but “if new leader follows his investment in connection with party on ground, it continues to thrive”.
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