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EU Policies and Populist Radical Right Parties' Programmatic Claims: Foreign Policy, Anti‐discrimination and the Single Market

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  • Gerda Falkner
  • Georg Plattner

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In recent national elections and in those to the European Parliament, populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have gained many more votes than in previous decades. What could that mean, at least in the long run, for EU activities in such areas as for example, the internal market, defence and security and the fight against discrimination? Beyond these parties' general eurosceptical attitude, little is known about their agreed plans for specific EU policies. Therefore, we have collected and analysed their programmatic statements. In this article we discuss how coherent or incoherent the demands of different PRRPs in the EU actually are, in terms of comparing their policies. How much do they agree or disagree when it comes to reforming EU policies?

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  • Gerda Falkner & Georg Plattner, 2020. "EU Policies and Populist Radical Right Parties' Programmatic Claims: Foreign Policy, Anti‐discrimination and the Single Market," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(3), pages 723-739, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:58:y:2020:i:3:p:723-739
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12963
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