The right-wing critique of Europe : nationalist, sovereignist and right-wing populist attitudes to the EU

The increasing importance and popularity of radical populist-nationalist and conservative-sovereignist parties and movements, whose common idea is a hostile attitude towards the European Union and its policies, has been a serious political problem in contemporary Europe. The two ‘ideal types’ of anti-Europeanist attitudes can be identified within this current wave of Euro-scepticism, namely: 1) the Euro-realism of the Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament and 2) the Euro-scepticism of the Identity and Democracy group, they are essentially united by the criticism of the current model of the European Union as based on the doctrine of European federalism and striving to build a European super-state as well as the core European values. The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of this criticism through the prism of the narrative of contemporary nationalist parties at the transnational level in Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe alike.