The report by Tony Blair’s think-tank concludes that far from having peaked, populism is set to gain strength in Europe – and populist parties have “taken over the levers of government” in many countries.
The former UK prime minister’s Institute for Global Change bases its analysis on data tracking the electoral results of 102 populist parties in 39 European countries between 2000 and 2017.
"The rise of the populists, we argue, has already changed the social and economic policies pursued by many countries; created new tensions between nation-states within Europe; and begun to put pressure on democratic institutions in a variety of countries that had once been seen as consolidated democracies," the report’s summary says.
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