Podcast Episode
Rym Momtaz, Pierre Vimont, and Maha Yahya discuss how the war on Iran is reshaping the Middle East and why Europe has sacrificed its influence in the region and the world.
Rym Momtaz, Pierre Vimont, Maha Yahya
Podcast Episode
Europe Head-to-Head: Is the Radical Right a Threat to Europe?
Rosa Balfour, Catherine Fieschi, and Cas Mudde discuss the rise and normalization of the radical right across Europe.
Published on Mar 31, 2026
With key elections approaching across Europe, radical-right parties are poised to maintain and even expand their political influence.
Rosa Balfour, Catherine Fieschi, and Cas Mudde explore whether a more right-leaning EU constitutes an existential threat, or if such concerns are overstated.
Read more:
Catherine Fieschi, Cas Mudde, March 19, 2026, "Is the Radical-Right Threat Existential or Overstated?," Carnegie Europe.
Rosa Balfour, January 24, 2026, "The EU Finally Used an Economic Threat Against Trump. But the Markets Forced His Climbdown," The Guardian.
Rosa Balfour, Stefan Lehne, Elena Ventura, September 22, 2025 "The European Radical Right in the Age of Trump 2.0," Carnegie Europe.
Rosa Balfour, April 30, 2025, "Europe Tried to Trump-Proof Itself. Now It’s Crafting a Plan B," Emissary, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Rosa Balfour and Stefan Lehne, April 18, 2024, "Charting the Radical Right’s Influence on EU Foreign Policy," Carnegie Europe.
Catherine Fieschi, April 10, 2025, "What Le Pen’s Sentence Means for the Rule of Law in Europe," Strategic Europe, Carnegie Europe.
Catherine Fieschi, August 16, 2023, "Populocracy," Agenda Publishing.
Cas Mudde, December 4, 2024, "Democracy is in a doom spiral—but it isn’t dead yet," Prospect Magazine.
Cas Mudde, September 2019, "The Far Right Today," Polity.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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