The New Far Right in European Politics

U. S. National Security Strategy (Dec. 4, 2025)
p.25 - economic decline >> "civilizational erasure"

Liberalism
post-WWII consensus

• open markets
• free trade
• immigration (managed)
• progress (social, economic)

New Right platform

• analysis of the present moment
  • liberal democracy
    • success
    • atomization (of individuals)
    • homogenization (of countries)
  • crises
    • 2007-08 - Great Recession
    • 2010 - Eurozone & "austerity"
    • 2015 - Isis, Syria (refugees, immigrants)
    • 2020 - CoViD-19 pandemic
• new class struggle
• policy agenda
  • borders
    • intra-European (limit Schengen)
    • EU
    • global (externalize to countries of origin)
    • demography / family policy
  • economics
    • reindustrialization
    • agriculture
      • Mercosur
  • foreign policy
    • Europe versus European Union
      • Brexit
      • Ukraine
      • Israel
    • Nato
  • the state
    • civil service / bureaucracy
• communication & new media
  • meaning, facts, attention

the future of centrism

Joseph de Weck, "Europe has got the message," The Atlantic Monthly (Feb. 17, 2026).