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Leading up to the first Spanish election of 2019 on 28 April, it was revealed that Super PAC are beginning to emerge in European politics. Much of this work was uncovered by openDemocracy, an investigative and independent media platform that shed light on these interesting new developments. It was uncovered that CitizenGo was strongly connectedContinue reading “Super PACs in Europe?”

One of the most surprising developments to occur with regards to nationalist populist internationalism was a delegation of Members of European Parliament (MEPs) that traveled to India to visit Kashmir. This event is unprecedented for a number of reasons. Firstly, 22 of the 27 MEPs that made up this delegation were from nationalist populist partiesContinue reading “Global Delegations”

While no single European Parliamentary group has managed to completely unite the nationalist populist movements across all of Europe, there is still a great deal of pan-European support provided to individual countries. A great example of this occurred in December 2017 when France’s Marine Le Pen and Netherlands’ Geert Wilder extended their support and congratulationsContinue reading “Pan-European Support”

Although there have been major alliances formed between nationalist populist movements at the European Parliament level, one of the most striking things about them is who is absent from their coalitions. The Visegrad Four could arguably be considered the cradle of these movements, however they do not participate in the broader alliances across Europe. TheContinue reading “The Visegrad Four”

Building off of the momentum gained by Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), a new political alliance of nationalist populists was formed to replace ENF in the European Parliament called Identity and Democracy (ID) in June 2019. ID reached new heights following the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections, gaining 73 seats and becoming the fifthContinue reading “Identity and Democracy”

After the collapse of Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS), it took 8 years for the modern nationalist populist movements of Europe to reform into a group within the European Parliament once again. This time, they would come to form the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group in June 2015. The nationalist populists were barely ableContinue reading “Europe of Nations and Freedom”

One of the first occurrences where Europe’s modern nationalist populist movements began to engage in international cooperation was through the formation of “Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty” (ITS). Bursting onto the scene in January 2007, ITS was the first coalition of nationalist populist Members of European Parliament (MEPs) in the 21st century that led to the creationContinue reading “Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty”