All articles by: Lukas Spielberger

Lukas Spielberger (1993) was born in Mainz, Germany and is a student of European Public Administration at the University of Twente (Netherlands). Lukas who was involved in the Capacity Building on Right-Wing Populism and Extremism as an intern in the European Policy Programme of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union is a guest on this blog.

Published on 08. November 2016 by Lukas Spielberger

Chances for Wilders Getting Slimmer Ahead of Dutch Election

Published on 08. November 2016 by Lukas Spielberger

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 […]

Published on 07. April 2016 by Lukas Spielberger

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

Published on 07. April 2016 by Lukas Spielberger

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 […]