Veeti Nurminen
@veetinurminen.bsky.social
✍️Freelancer
🎓IR graduate from Stockholm University
📚Interested in welfare state politics and the far right
🎓IR graduate from Stockholm University
📚Interested in welfare state politics and the far right
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Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
In many parts of Europe populist-right parties have moderated as they have grown, shedding unpopular policies and personnel. If anything, the AfD in Germany is growing more radical econ.st/3KSptMm
Illustration: Javier Palma
Illustration: Javier Palma
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
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Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The far right will be the dominant force on the right in Europe within the next 5-10 years. Most focus is still on how to prevent this but imho too many mistakes have been made that have created path dependencies. We need to focus more on what it means for our democracies when we reach this stage.
Strongly suspect that this is what will happen here in 28/9. Tories will replace Badenoch with a leader prepared to try it and Farage (as per 2019 but this time as the senior partner) will continue to deny he'll do a stand-down deal - right up until the point he does one.
French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country | Paul Taylor
In trying to woo Le Pen’s voters, Les Républicains risk destroying France’s Gaullist legacy and putting Paris on a collision course with the EU, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The far right will be the dominant force on the right in Europe within the next 5-10 years. Most focus is still on how to prevent this but imho too many mistakes have been made that have created path dependencies. We need to focus more on what it means for our democracies when we reach this stage.
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To expand on why this is a ridiculous claim: the Netherlands uses all paper ballots marked with a red pencil. Voting and counting are decentralized and conducted by volunteers; anyone who wants to can come watch. Among the most trustworthy elections in the world. www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/...
November 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
To expand on why this is a ridiculous claim: the Netherlands uses all paper ballots marked with a red pencil. Voting and counting are decentralized and conducted by volunteers; anyone who wants to can come watch. Among the most trustworthy elections in the world. www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/...
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Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨 Evergreen Post 🚨
Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
Like almost every other West European election in this century, the Dutch election is not about “populism” but about nativism, i.e. xenophobic nationalism.
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Finland, a country with a 10% unemployment rate, has now decided that being unemployed shows that you aren't "successfully integrated" and therefore don't deserve citizenship.
Parliament approves further tightening of Finland's citizenship laws
The latest changes mean that an applicant will be denied a Finnish passport if they have relied on social welfare benefits for more than three months over a two-year period.
yle.fi
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Finland, a country with a 10% unemployment rate, has now decided that being unemployed shows that you aren't "successfully integrated" and therefore don't deserve citizenship.