Awakening of right-wing in European Union: The way to the new Europe or 'false alarm'?

• Main Author: Petrović Rajko Č.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, Serbia 2018-01-01
• Series: Politeia
• Subjects: European Union; Right-wing; politics; New Europe
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2232-9641/2018/2232-96411815103P.pdf
• ISSN: 2232-9641; 2566-2805

The European Union today faces difficult challenges. Numerous political, economic, social, cultural and identity issues in the European Union have not been treated satisfactorily, causing direct consequences in its political life. More and more citizens are unhappy with the way in which the current political elite of the European Union responds to these challenges, while the opposition political parties (whether left-wing or right-wing center parties) do not offer a significantly different alternative. For these reasons, over the past two decades, the European Union has gradually revived the political right-wing. Whether it's a new right-wing center, far right-wing or an extreme right-wing - a new wave of the right-wing gives citizens of the Union an authentic alternative policy. It is about parties that are ready to deal with the problems of migration, culture, religion, identity, as well as the integration of minorities into the European model of life. Although still media-satanized and labeled as a fascist or Nazi, the European right-wing year after year is stronger - from Hungary, through Slovakia, Poland, Germany and Austria, all the way to the Netherlands and Great Britain. The ruling political elite in Brussels called the wave of the rise of the right-wing in the Union a ' false alarm', while the relevant data from the previous election cycles of the same, as well as public opinion polls show a completely opposite tendency - the desire of a large part of the citizens to create 'New Europe'.