Description
Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine changed far-right attitudes to the European Union? And in what ways? To elaborate on these questions, we do a qualitative content analysis of party manifestos, public speeches, and media interventions of far-right party actors from the EU’s North and South, East and West, namely Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Hungary, and Greece. Building a data corpus from these original sources, mainstream and alternative media we identify continuity and change in the way far-right parties have framed the political identity and the foreign policy of the EU. We expect to find (1) a significant variance between far-right’s positions in different countries, (2), a significant variance when it comes to attitudes towards EU’s security and economic policies, respectively. Finally, we argue (3) that after the initial shock of the war, even the same far-right parties have shifted their framing as the war progressed.
