From October 12 – 16 2015, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union hosted a capacity building for 16 young Europeans from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Sweden and the UK. The aim was to give the participants the possibility to compare the right-wing movements in their respective countries of origin and to jointly develop policies to combat this disquieting trend.
Populist radical right parties can be a threat to fundamental values of liberal democracies. What are the reactions and possible effects in the European Parliament?
Since the phrase ‘an ever closer union’ has come to use, the European project has changed, and will continue to change. How to build strategies to counter Euroscepticism?
Nowadays Euroscepticism is growing and strengthening, it is more evident than ever that we must change Europe and its institutional structures in order to save it.
Has the EU disillusionment over the recent years created Russia as the emerging ideological model/leader and an ally for right-wing European movements?
We are now in the third wave of the rise of populist and extremist parties in Germany, what are the causes, examples and challenges in this difficult situation?
What structural and short-term factors fuel Euroscepticism? How to explain the growing phenomenon of Euroscepticism in France? How the national background affects the configuration of Euroscepticism? How to transform the Euroscepticism trend to “Europtimism”?
