Local shocks: the far right in the 2014 European elections

In cooperation with ACCESS EUROPE

Lecture

According to the international media, the European Union was shaken by a “political earthquake” in May 2014. The source of that earthquake was the electoral success of so-called “anti-EU parties” in general, and far Right parties in particular. Professor Cas Mudde (University of Georgia) elaborates.

While it is true that unprecedented results were obtained by some far Right parties, much of what happened was either not new or not noticed. This lecture will look at the results of the far Right in a broad historic and regional perspective, arguing that the shocks were largely local and predictable, and will have relatively limited national and supranational consequences, at least in the short and medium term.

Over de spreker

Cas Mudde is an associate professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at Leiden University. Professor Mudde is an expert on European politics and the foremost scholar on the far right in western democracies. 

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