Tag: immigration

  • 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…

  • Xenophobia ─ How to Fight It

    Xenophobia ─ How to Fight It

    In our discussions in last year’s capacity building the subject of xenophobia came up. Xenophobia (here used in the sense of dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries) is part of the ideology of far right parties, directly or indirectly. An example of this is when Nigel Farage of UKIP claimed he would…