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How would Europe’s populist right govern?

Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr, Nigel Farage, Alice Weidel, Jordan Bardella, Zannie, Sophie, Sasha, Ed, Sani

Amid a backdrop of economic stagnation and eroded public trust, populist leaders such as Italy's Matteo Bardella, the UK's Nigel Farage, and Germany's Alice Weidel are gaining traction by blending pro-growth rhetoric with nationalist agendas. While these movements face internal contradictions regarding fiscal realism and external barriers like the German "Brandmauer," they collectively frame the European Union as a structural obstacle to national prosperity. The resulting geopolitical friction promises to deepen polarization, as these parties advocate for diametrically opposed reforms that threaten to destabilize European integration.