How do we explain the resurgence of populism in one country after another? Maybe in terms of common structural conditions or passive diffusion of ideas across contexts?

Interview of Steven Forti, Ph.D in Comparative, Political and Social History from the UAB and the University of Bologna.

I arrived at the European Parliament in 2009. In exact coincidence with two events that have acquired historical resonance.

The defeat of classical fascism (1919-1945) in the Second World War led to the stigmatization of the ideals of the Radical Right in the first third of the 20th century. 

Since 2016, several political events have been worrying and have shaken the old continent over and over again.

Cosmopolitan nomads, a genuine product of globalisation and postmodernity, fed up with global uprooting, now appears to be disenchanted and suffering a crisis.

The rise of the Far Right and nationalism in Europe is not a passing fad, rather it is here to stay for at least a long time.

No-one denies that the DNA of Catalonian nationalism is a purely conservative affaire.

The Far Right and nationalism, although they are different realities, have common attitudes.

That our continent is going backwards is nothing new.

In Europe we have been witnessing a rebirth of nationalisms that threaten the political stability of democracies and the integration process itself.

Europeanization aims at the integration of their nation-states in favour of continental political union.

For years, populism has sat at the top table of the heads of state and government of the European Union.