Profiteers of fear? Right-wing populism and the COVID-19 Crisis

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:

• Via Facebook FES Italia (English) at https://www.facebook.com/events/300426571492370
• Via Zoom (German/English) at https://zoom.us/j/93893022762.
• We are using the meeting platform ZOOM, you can find information on data security here.
• In case of technical difficulties or other questions, please contact Annika Jänchen: forum.aj(at)fes.de

We are looking forward to an interesting event with you!