“The turn to the right in Europe was fueled by two interrelated factors. First was the 2008 economic crisis. … The economic crisis pushed popular opinion toward a growing Euroskepticism—the second factor boosting the popularity of the far right’s anti-EU platforms. Across Europe, citizens began to doubt that European integration—supported and ushered in by centrist parties on the left and the right—was the answer to their discontent.”
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World Affairs Journal
