The results of the last European Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties across the EU. The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark’s Dansk Folskeparti, Slovenia’s Slovenska demokratska stranka, France’s Front National, Greece’s Golden Dawn, the United Kingdom Independence Party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy and the Austrian FPÖ, has been perceived as a political wave which is transforming the face of the European Parliament, and challenging at some level the hegemony of the 'big four' well-established European political forces that lead the Strasbourg’s assembly: the ALDE, EPP, S&D and Greens/ALE.

This international volume combines extensive transnational comparative data analysis, as well as research at discursive, attitudinal and behavioural levels.

1. Introduction: The Concept and Its Definitions; Giovanna Campani, Gabriella Lazaridis and Annie Benveniste.- 2. Neo fascism, from the XXth Century to the Third Millennium: the Case of Italy; Giovanna Campani.- 3. Far Right Movements in France: the Chief Role of National Front and the Rise of Islamophobia; Annie Benveniste and Etienne Pingaud.- 4. Hegemonic Discourse of Difference and Inequality: Right-wing organizations in Austria; Birgit Sauer and Edma Ajanovic.- 5. Right Wing Populism in Denmark: People, Nation and Welfare in the Construction of the ‘Other’; Birte Siim and Susi Meret.- 6. Populism in Slovenian Context between Ethno-nationalism and Re-traditionalization; Mojca Pajnik, Roman Kuhar and Iztok Šori.- 7. The Post-communist Rise of National Populism: Bulgarian paradoxes; Anna Krasteva.- 8. Posing for Legitimacy?: Identity and Praxis of Far Right Populism in Greece; Gabriella Lazaridis and Vasiliki Tsagkroni.- 9. Majority Identitarian Populism in Britain; Gabriella Lazaridis and Vasiliki Tsagkroni