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Interviews

Prof. Önnerfors: If SD Enters Government, Swedish Politics Will Enter a New Phase

September 9, 2026
Commentaries

Stealing from the Future: Erdogan’s Medium-Term Program and Economic Populism for Electoral Survival

September 8, 2026
Interviews

Prof. Bolin: The Sweden Democrats Have Normalized Without Becoming Less Populist

September 9, 2026
European Observatory

How to Explain the AfD’s Victory in Eastern Germany

September 8, 2026
Interviews

Prof. Lavine: The Democrats Are Making Themselves Vulnerable by Using the Socialist Label

September 7, 2026

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Irina von Wiese replaces Sir Watson as the honorary president of ECPS

Former MEP Irina von Wiese replaces Sir Graham Watson as the honorary president of ECPS. Sir Watson is stepping down ...

March 6, 2025
Members of the Reich Citizens' Movement organize a lift at the Lustgarten in the city of Berlin, Germany on November 9, 2019. They deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany. Photo: Juergen Nowak.
Analysis

What does Patriotic Union’s coup plan in Germany tell us about threats posed by far-right?

As the investigations are ongoing, not much is known of the real threat to democracy that this group posed. Nevertheless, ...

March 16, 2025
Flowers and Candles at the Hanau shooting site as a remembrance to the victims of right extremist terror attack in Germany on February 20, 2020.
Analysis

Extremist criminal offenses rise in Germany, intelligence report suggests

Right-wing extremism increased in Germany in 2019, the country’s domestic intelligence agency has reported, with over 32,000 extremists identified. The report ...

March 16, 2025
AfD demonstrated with slogan "Stop Islamization" in Rostock on May 14, 2018. AfD, Alternative for Germany, is a right wing political party in Germany.
Analysis

Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over a ​racist migrant comment

Germany’s populist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on September 28, 2020 who had been caught on a hidden camera ...

March 16, 2025
Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders campaigns on behalf of his Freedom Party ahead of municipal elections in Spijkenisse, Netherlands on March 17 2018.
Analysis

Dutch appeals court clears far-right leader Wilders of inciting hatred

Dutch politician Geert Wilders was acquitted by an appeals court on September 4, 2020 of discrimination, in a partial legal victory for ...

March 16, 2025

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Commentaries

Stealing from the Future: Erdogan’s Medium-Term Program and Economic Populism for Electoral Survival

Professor Ibrahim Ozturk argues that Turkey’s 2027–2029 Medium-Term Program is less a credible development strategy than a politically sequenced exercise ...

September 8, 2026
AfD posters.
European Observatory

How to Explain the AfD’s Victory in Eastern Germany

Dr. João Ferreira Dias argues that the AfD’s strength in Eastern Germany cannot be explained by poverty alone. Instead, its ...

September 8, 2026
Photo: Dreamstime.
Voice of Youth

From Mass Parties to Digital Bubbles: How Young Europeans Encounter Politics

In this commentary, Filippo Palmieri examines how digital platforms are reshaping the political socialization of young Europeans. As mass parties ...

September 2, 2026
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Commentaries

The Bukele Model: Populist Power, Judicial Erosion, and Authoritarian Consolidation in El Salvador

In this commentary, Dr. Lilliam Arrieta examines how Nayib Bukele’s rise in El Salvador illustrates the speed with which elected ...

September 1, 2026
Ceuta, the Spanish city in North Africa.
European Observatory

Ceuta Could Be the Last Frontier of the Liberal-Multicultural Age

In this commentary, Dr. João Ferreira Dias examines the migration crisis in Ceuta as a “total crisis” encompassing humanitarian obligations, ...

August 28, 2026
The Constitutional Tribunal (Trybunał Konstytucyjny), Poland’s constitutional court, in Warsaw.
Commentaries

From Parallel Constitutions to Schrödinger’s Tribunals: Poland’s Unresolved Constitutional Crisis

In this commentary, Dr. Kamil Jonski examines Poland’s protracted constitutional crisis through the prospect of what he calls “Schrödinger’s Tribunals”: ...

August 28, 2026
Sweden, SD
Commentaries

“Making Sweden Sweden Again”—or Undoing the Sweden You Know?

In this commentary, Dr. Bulent Kenes examines the political transformation of Sweden through the rise of the Sweden Democrats (SD) ...

August 28, 2026
Rohingya refugees.
Voice of Youth

August 25: From Remembrance to Responsibility for the Rohingya

In this reflective Voice of Youth commentary marking Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on August 25, PS Ayaas, a young Rohingya ...

August 23, 2026

Interviews

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Professor Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors is Full Professor in Intellectual History at Linnaeus University, and researcher and project leader at the Fojo Media Institute in Sweden.
Interviews

Prof. Önnerfors: If SD Enters Government, Swedish Politics Will Enter a New Phase

As Sweden approaches a razor-thin 2026 election, Professor Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors argues that the Sweden Democrats’ significance lies not only in ...

September 9, 2026
Professor Niklas Bolin.
Interviews

Prof. Bolin: The Sweden Democrats Have Normalized Without Becoming Less Populist

Professor Niklas Bolin argues that the Sweden Democrats’ most consequential transformation is institutional normalization rather than ideological moderation. As Sweden ...

September 9, 2026
Professor Howard Lavine.
Interviews

Prof. Lavine: The Democrats Are Making Themselves Vulnerable by Using the Socialist Label

Professor Howard Lavine argues that the Democratic Party’s path to renewal lies less in ideological repositioning than in economic populism, ...

September 7, 2026
Imran Bayoumi is Deputy Director and Resident Fellow with the GeoStrategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. From 2024 to 2025, he served as a policy advisor at the US Department of Defense.
Interviews

Imran Bayoumi: The Decline of Multilateralism Rewards Both Populism and Authoritarian Powers

In this interview, Imran Bayoumi examines how the weakening of multilateral institutions and the rise of transactional diplomacy are reshaping ...

September 5, 2026
Dr. María José Urzúa Valverde.
Interviews

Dr. Valverde: Autocracies See Independent Civic Space Itself as a Strategic Threat

In this interview with ECPS, Dr. María José Urzúa Valverde examines how authoritarianism, populism, and democratic backsliding increasingly intersect with ...

September 5, 2026
Professor Oscar Mazzoleni and Dr. Klaudia Koxha.
Interviews

Prof. Mazzoleni & Dr. Koxha: Demographic Populism Links Cultural Survival to Biological Reproduction

In this interview, Professor Oscar Mazzoleni and Dr. Klaudia Koxha, editors of the recently published volume ‘The Radical Right and Demographic Populism,’ ...

August 28, 2026
Professor Justin Gest.
Interviews

Prof. Gest: The Way Countries Treat Their Most Vulnerable Is Indicative of the State of Their Democracy

Professor Justin Gest argues that democratic resilience depends not only on institutions but also on the citizens who remain to ...

August 23, 2026
Abelardo de la Espriella.
Interviews

Dr. Arnson: Building Legitimate State Presence in Colombia Requires More than the Military

As Abelardo de la Espriella assumes Colombia's presidency on August 7, 2026, the country enters a defining moment in its ...

August 27, 2026
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