A Home Truth

The impoverished ideologisation of the European political debate

14 December 2018

Spasimir Domaradzki

Visegrad Insight Fellow

The dominant nucleus of today’s EU’s political scene consists of ideologically paradoxical alliances between socialists, liberals, green radicals, more moderate communists and centrist conservatives.

They are united by the federalist perspective of weakened national institutions and adjust their political agendas to the self-created European level of political discourse – a level with no demos.

At this level, the liberals talk about a common market, the rule of law and equal rights, and the centrist conservatives plead that they represent the dominant vision of Europe, which is a symbiosis of regulation and command economy. Representatives of these circles in the European Parliament are building formal alliances and informal agreements to prevent any challenging of the federalist vision of the integration process.

The factions of Euroscepticism

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Spasimir Domaradzki

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Visegrad Insight Fellow. Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Lazarski University in Warsaw.

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