Economic Security
Interview
Three Seas Initiative is Going Strong – Interview with Krzysztof Domarecki
21 April 2026
In the following interview, Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde outlines how Europe has incorporated populism rather than create effective tools to mitigate its rise and highlights how the West’s promotion of liberal democracy is rooted in strategy, not ideology.
Recently, Iván László Nagy sat down with Cas Mudde to discuss the current state of populism in Europe and the United States. Cas Mudde’s research focuses on political extremism and populism in Europe and the United States, including the areas of political parties, extremism, democracy, civil society and European politics. You can listen to the podcast with the full interview below.
Iván László Nagy: In 2021, you said that the “populist hype” was over. Since then, Viktor Orbán won another landslide, Erdoğan won in Türkiye, FPÖ is getting stronger in Austria, and there is a rebirth of Trumpism in the US. Would you say this is a new wave, or are they the last ones standing from the mid-2010 cohort?
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