Profiteers of Fear? Right-Wing Populism and the COVID-19 Crisis in Europe

At the beginning of the first pandemic wave, some of our European FES offices ventured on the question of whether right-wing extremist or populist parties could capitalise on the crisis and what effect the pandemic has on political culture. Country analyses from France, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy and Romania were produced. Out of these country reports we also compiled an overview analysis.
 
We invite you to attend the online presentation of this project and join our discussion of the main findings with the FES President Martin Schulz. Several authors from the country analyses will also report some of their main results and debate the recent developments in Europe:
 
PROFITEERS OF FEAR?
RIGHT-WING POPULISM AND THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN EUROPE
Wednesday, 21st April 2021
Start: 6pm (CEST) // Duration: about 90 minutes
 
Guests:
Ann-Cathrine Jungar --- Södertörn University Stockholm, Sweden
Jose Javier Olivas Osuna --- National Distance Education University Madrid, Spain
Martin Schulz, MP --- President of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Verena Stern --- University Bielefeld, Germany
Andrei Țăranu --- National School for Political and Administrative Studies Bukarest, Romania
Sofia Ventura --- University Bologna, Italy
Moderation of the event: Tobias Mörschel --- Director of FES Italy
 
All information on the project and the country analyses can be found here: https://nordics.fes.de/e/default-7f5ab95431
 
Technical access to the online presentation:
Without registration via Facebook FES Italia (english) at https://www.facebook.com/FESItalia/.
With Registration via Zoom (english-german translation), the access information will be sent to you after registration and with these you will be able to take part in the debate and also choose the language channel. For Registration please send an email to cristian.chiscop[at]fes.de.