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Work Permits for Temporary Protection Beneficiaries: Precarious Practice Rejected but Why?

Maja Lysienia — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:30:41 +0000

Since the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive, persons displaced from Ukraine have been granted generous rights, including the right to be employed. However, some Member States have imposed a work permit requirement on temporary protection beneficiaries, despite concerns that such measures contribute to increasing precarity among migrant workers. Requiring

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Radical Right Populism’s Strategies for Success and the Road Ahead

Anna Marino — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:30:00 +0000

Populist radical right parties have gained support in Europe using convincing messaging based on nationalism, nativism, and promises of returning to a “better” past. They have seemed to leverage people’s frustrations with the current challenges by offering simple solutions: a stronger state, traditional values, and security from perceived threats. This

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Germany’s Populist Right-Wing Party’s Decade of Success

Valentina Tonino — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:30:56 +0000

The Alternative for Germany (AfD), founded in February 2013, began as a Eurosceptic movement and later expanded to challenge immigration policies. In just a decade, the AfD has gained popularity across all federal states by securing significant votes in regional, national, and European elections among all age groups. Initially dismissed

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Shifting Dikes: The Dutch Political Transformation Under Geert Wilders

Lisa Johan — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:30:09 +0000

The political landscape of the Netherlands underwent a drastic change in 2023. After 11 years, the longest-standing prime minister, Mark Rutte, left a power vacuum that would reshape Dutch politics. Geert Wilders, long considered a political outsider, emerged as the winner of the elections held in 2023. But how did

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Italy Setting Trends in the European Radical Right: The Success of Fratelli d’Italia

Anna Marino — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:30:36 +0000

Fratelli D’Italia (FdI), Italy’s leading Populist Radical Right (PRR) party, has become a model for far-right movements across Europe following its success in the Italian elections in 2022. The party was extremely successful in presenting itself as a novelty within the context of radical right populism. Its main tenets –

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Post-Assad Syria: What Lies Ahead for Syrian Refugees in Europe?

Robin Stünzi — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:01:53 +0000

With the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, statements concerning the fate of Syrian asylum seekers and refugees in Europe have proliferated. Beyond these heated reactions, the regime’s collapse raises critical sociological, legal, and political questions that scientific research could help address. In an optimistic scenario for Syria, will Syrian refugees

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The Rising Popularity of Populist Radical Right Parties in the EU: Five Case Studies From Southern and Northern Europe

Anna Marino — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:20:34 +0000

Populism has been defined as one of the key threats to democracy since the early 2000s making experts increasingly concerned. Populist Radical Right (PRR) parties have been gaining influence in the European Union, even in member states once considered immune to their popularity. By examining the characteristics of these PRR

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Living the Securitized Border: Testimonies from the Central Mediterranean Sea

Anna Marino — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:30:48 +0000

Europe’s borders are not just distant physical barriers but powerful forces shaping how we perceive and manage migration across the continent. “Thinking Outside the Border,” an illustrated booklet launched by doctoral researcher Anna Marino, focuses on this reality. Created with the activist Simone Gavazzi and illustrator Arianna Sisani, the project

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Behind the EU Pact on Asylum: A Geography of Protection

Etienne Piguet — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:35:34 +0000

European asylum policy still has a long way to go to better address protection challenges. The EU’s new Pact on Asylum has been created to manage some of the existing imbalances by assisting countries receiving more seekers with relocations, financial aid, or taking responsibility for applicants and easing their pressure.

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The Politics of Free Movement: What Have We Learned?

Philipp Lutz — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:30:32 +0000

On this day, 25 years ago, Switzerland signed a bilateral agreement with the European Union to establish the free movement of persons. It is time to look back on how this issue has shaped Swiss politics thus far. The idea of the free movement of persons as reciprocal mobility rights

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