Europe as ideological resource: how far right parties can benefit from European integration
Lorimer, M.
(15 May 2020)
Europe as ideological resource: how far right parties can benefit from European integration.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
(15 May 2020)
Europe as ideological resource: how far right parties can benefit from European integration.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
Far right parties typically oppose the European Union, yet European integration has paradoxically provided the far right with funding, visibility and a higher degree of credibility and respectability. Drawing on the case of the French Rassemblement National, Marta Lorimer explains how the EU may have inadvertently facilitated the success of some of its strongest critics.