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?
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.
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”?
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?
To what extent should the state intervene in the economy? Political debates on this issue often follow a false dichotomy. We take for granted that the Left favours a high degree of state intervention, while onservatives are associated with support for free markets. The important question is not the extent of state intervention but rather the nature of the legislation that we must adopt in order to best serve the interests of the broad majority.
The Polish parliamentary election held on 25 October, took place in the middle of an unprecedented refugee crisis in Europe and in the context of rising support for right-wing populist movements in almost all EU Member States. Download our event report to see if and how the migration issue affected the election and for an overall analysis.
