The Right-Wing Critique of Europe

The Right-Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a variety of right-wing organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe.

Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests include nationalism, fascism, and the far right, as well as memory of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. Francesco Berti is Associate Professor of the History of Political Doctrines at the University of Padova, Italy. Among other subjects, he has published on nationalism and the Shoah.

Introduction Part I. Current Nationalisms and European Integration Process 1. Against Europe or Against Germany? European Integration and Germanophobia in France, Great Britain, and Italy 2. Right-wing Populism, Euroscepticism, and Neo-traditionalism in Central/Eastern Europe Part II. Nationalist, Souverainist and National-populist Parties in Europe 3. The Nationalism of the New Right in the Federal Republic of Germany 4. Pro-European, Anti-EU? The National Rally and European Integration 5. Giorgia Meloni's New Europe: Europe of Sovereign Nations in the Brothers of Italy Party Manifestos 6. The League of Salvini: From a Europe of Regions to a Europe of Nations 7. English Nationalism and its Role in Building Support for Brexit: The Case of UKIP and the Brexit Party 8. Ally, Opponent or Means to an End? The Role of the European Union in the Catalan Independence Process 9. 'Poland in Europe, Europe for Poland': National Populist Narratives on the Example of Kukiz'15 10. Considerations on the Role of Hungary and the Hungarian Nation in the European Union After 1989 11. Between the Past and the Future: Eurosceptic Political Parties and the EU Integration of Serbia 12. The Main Varieties of Russian Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Period and their Relationship to European Heritage and Contemporariness Part III. Right-wing Populist Attitudes Towards the EU 13. United in Diversity? The Preferences of Populist Parties in the European Parliament 14. (Momentarily) Drifting into Ideocracy in Central Europe: The Case of Law and Justice and Fidesz 15. A European Legal War? Nationalist Populism, the Rule of Law and the Language of Constitutionalism 16. Between Patriotism and Nationalism: National Identity in the Education Policy of Prawo i Sprawiedliwö-. Comments on the 2017 Education Reform Part IV. By Way of a Conclusion 17. Francis on Europe