Europeanisation of the populist far-right – the political crisis of the EU and the emergence of a populist far-right European project

This article traces contradictory developments in the Europeanisation of the populist far right. Based on state and hegemony theory, it analyses the development of a European far-right project between 2019 and 2024. Five events are central to this analysis: the 2019 European elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Conference on the Future of Europe, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and the European Elections 2025. During this period, a European far-right project developed based on the idea of a ‘true Europe’. However, this was not a linear process but was characterized by many contradictions and differences within the far-right. This suggests that the European scale plays a much more important role and requires greater attention in research.