Bifurcating Paths

Far-right Critics of the EU have Less in Common Than They Pose

12 July 2021

Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Besides using the European Union as an imperialist punch bag, Eurosceptic parties gathering at the periphery do not see eye to eye on most foreign policy issues.

Incorporating the authoritarian tenets and state capture of right-wing populists with the critical argumentation from left-wing variants makes for a compelling political stance and superficially buffers the governments in Hungary and Poland from domestic electoral losses that could otherwise stem from international criticism.

However, their nationalistic tendencies derived from different sources than similar movements on the continent and the links that bind them are tenuous at best.

The Hungarian Prime Minister is in no man’s land (out of the European People’s party). He wants to build a perception of Eurosceptic unity based on a common fight against EU institutions and norms, and he just started a huge political storm over the attack on LGBTQ+ rights.

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Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Dr. Edit Zgut-Przybylska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (IFIS) in the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and a visiting fellow at CEU Democracy Institute. Her research interest covers informality and populism in the context of democratic backsliding and the constraining role of the European Union. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute of the US State Department. Synthetic versions of her work are available on POLITICO EUROPE, Foreign Policy and Visegrad Insight. Edit held a re:constitution fellowship 2022/2023, a Rethink.CEE fellowship at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Visegrad Insight Fellowship. She previously worked at Political Capital Research Institute and prior to that, she was a journalist at various media outlets in Hungary.

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