Author: Lukas Spielberger

  • Chances for Wilders Getting Slimmer Ahead of Dutch Election

    Chances for Wilders Getting Slimmer Ahead of Dutch Election

    2017 will be the year of important elections in Europe. In France, Marine Le Pen has a chance to win the presidential elections and Germany will have to come to grips with the rise of the Alternative für Deutschland, a right-wing populist party which arrived on the political scene only three years ago and fed…

  • The New Right and its Economic Policy – not so Right After All

    The New Right and its Economic Policy – not so Right After All

    The success of the parties of the New Right all across Europe in recent years has largely been ascribed to their strong anti-immigrant and anti-EU rhetoric. With the current salience of immigration policy and the resulting momentum for inward-looking policies, this explanation certainly springs to mind. But the New Right challenges the political mainstream on…