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Populismul în Europa Centrală şi de Est
Populism in Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): Jacques Rupnik
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: communism; fall of communism; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; populism; extremist nationalism; European integration; EU – political affinities; opposition to totalitarianism; pre-communist politics; Poland; Catholicism; nationalism; Czechoslovakia; Solida

Summary/Abstract: While showing the main traits of populism and its effects on the EU, the author is confident that the situation might look desperate but not serious. There are chances that populism will be eroded both from outside and from within. Populism is the mist important test for the EU’s capacity to absorb the new member-states – concludes the author.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 64
  • Page Range: 18-19
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: Romanian