1st Edition

The Right-Wing Critique of Europe Nationalist, Sovereignist and Right-Wing Populist Attitudes to the EU

Edited By Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas, Francesco Berti Copyright 2022
290 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. In recent years, opposition to the processes of globalisation and the programme of closer European integration, understood as a threat to the sovereignty of individual member states, has led to an intensification of Eurosceptic... Read more

Introduction

Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas and Francesco Berti

Part I. Current Nationalisms and European Integration Process

1. Against Europe or Against Germany? European Integration and Germanophobia in France, Great Britain, and Italy

Daniele Pasquinucci

2. Right-wing Populism, Euroscepticism, and Neo-traditionalism in Central/Eastern Europe

Zdzisław Mach

Part II. Nationalist, Souverainist and National-populist Parties in Europe

3. The Nationalism of the New Right in the Federal Republic of Germany

Marek Maciejewski

4. Pro-European, Anti-EU? The National Rally and European Integration

Marta Lorimer

5. Giorgia Meloni's New Europe: Europe of Sovereign Nations in the Brothers of Italy Party Manifestos

Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas

6. The League of Salvini: From a Europe of Regions to a Europe of Nations

Gianluca Passarelli and Dario Tuorto

7. English Nationalism and its Role in Building Support for Brexit: The Case of UKIP and the Brexit Party

Marcin Galent

8. Ally, Opponent or Means to an End? The Role of the European Union in the Catalan Independence Process

Agnieszka Grzechynka

9. ‘Poland in Europe, Europe for Poland’: National Populist Narratives on the Example of Kukiz’15

Małgorzata Maria Fijał

10. Considerations on the Role of Hungary and the Hungarian Nation in the European Union After 1989

Tadeusz Kopyś

11. Between the Past and the Future: Eurosceptic Political Parties and the EU Integration of Serbia

Natasza Styczyńska and Haris Dajč

12. The Main Varieties of Russian Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Period and their Relationship to European Heritage and Contemporariness

Joachim Diec

Part III. Right-wing Populist Attitudes Towards the EU

13. United in Diversity? The Preferences of Populist Parties in the European Parliament

Giorgia Nesti and Paolo Graziano

14. (Momentarily) Drifting into Ideocracy in Central Europe: The Case of Law and Justice and Fidesz

Grzegorz Pożarlik

15. A European Legal War? Nationalist Populism, the Rule of Law and the Language of Constitutionalism

Przemysław Tacik

16. Between Patriotism and Nationalism: National Identity in the Education Policy of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość. Comments on the 2017 Education Reform

Elżbieta M. Mach

Part IV. By Way of a Conclusion

17. Francis on Europe

Ewa Kozerska

Biography

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.