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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Excellent by @cfieschi.bsky.social: ”a display of populist confidence drawn from a particular grammar: institutions are never neutral, constraints are always traps, only the people confer legitimacy. In that grammar, criminal convictions don’t disqualify, they serve as evidence of persecution.”+

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 25/05/2026

France’s contemporary right-wing populism is divided, creating a dynamic of dealignment and making it difficult to identify shared priorities that could support a durable alternative to other parties. @carnegieeurope.bsky.social's @cfieschi.bsky.social explains:

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The French Far Right’s Foreign Policy: Big Ambitions, Uncertain Direction

The National Rally’s electoral strength, coupled with its internal fragility at a crucial political juncture, contributes to foreign policy vagueness.

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Carnegie Europe @carnegieeurope.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🗣️ The radical right paralyzes debates and decisionmarking on issues of existential survival for Europe, says @cfieschi.bsky.social. 🎧 Listen to her Europe Head-to-Head debate with @casmudde.bsky.social, out now via #EuropeInsideOut: europe-inside-out.simplecast.com/episodes/is-...

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Carnegie Europe @carnegieeurope.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The far right failed to win big in France’s municipal elections. But that’s not good news for the country’s left wing. Despite the lack of showy results, the right consolidated its momentum ahead of the 2027 presidential race, argues @cfieschi.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

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Is France Shifting Rightward?

The far right failed to win big in France’s municipal elections. But that’s not good news for the country’s left wing, which remained disunited while the broader right consolidated its momentum ahead ...

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

REMINDER 🚨 This Wednesday @cfieschi.bsky.social and I discuss the threat of the radical right in and to Europe at this @carnegieendowment.org online event. Sign up here 👇

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Is the Radical-Right Threat to Europe Existential or Overstated?

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Carnegie Europe @carnegieeurope.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We are delighted to welcome Catherine Fieschi (@cfieschi.bsky.social) to Carnegie Europe as a nonresident scholar. A leading expert on European politics, Catherine will analyze the rise of populist and authoritarian movements in advanced democracies. We will be sharing more of her work soon.

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Carnegie Europe @carnegieeurope.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

EVENT | Is the Radical-Right Threat to Europe Existential or Overstated? 📢 Next March 25, at 5:00 pm, join @cfieschi.bsky.social & @casmudde.bsky.social to discuss whether Europe's geostrategic vision can survive a politics led by the radical right. Register: carnegieendowment.org/europe/event...

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Virginia Mucchi @virginiamucchi.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Writing for the algorithm? @cfieschi.bsky.social talking to @catherinedevries.bsky.social. Can something be 'shareable' without losing its complexity? What do you think @sbeverts.bsky.social @anthonyzach.be @garethbxl.bsky.social ?

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Thank you @catherinedevries.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation about writing. We don’t think often enough about what drives us to write, and the nature of the experience. It was a pleasure to do so on a sunny summer morning!

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Bon, Poutine n’est pas en Turquie. Nouvelles sanctions Européennes contre la Russie des lundi, n’est-ce pas?

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I hate to think his last official meeting was with that creepy little shit Vance…

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Carnegie Europe @carnegieeurope.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Le Pen's ban from elected office has sparked accusations from populist movements of antidemocratic behavior. But the ruling shows a commitment to the rule of law, which is the only way to counter claims that the system is rigged, says @cfieschi.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

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What Le Pen’s Sentence Means for the Rule of Law in Europe

Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzlement and ban from elected office have sparked accusations from far-right and populist movements of antidemocratic behavior. But the ruling shows that attachment ...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

“What we are watching is Trump’s tariff-induced crash turning into a Truss-style fiscal crisis. The collapse in US government long bonds, Treasuries, is startling, scary. It is precisely the opposite of what Trump and his advisers expected and wanted” Robert Peston

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🇨🇦 Off to mail my Canadian ballot paper! Super-efficient service from #ElectionsCanada for voters based abroad 🇨🇦

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🇪🇺🇧🇪The Bundestag has just adopted Merz’s so-called ‘budget bazooka’. This is a truly historic moment. Germany is turning its back on decades of budgetary orthodoxy and massively boosting defence spending. As Merz put it: it’s a ‘giant step toward a European defence community’. #Zeitenwende at last

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Today in Rome and other Italian cities #PiazzaPerLEuropa A call for a massive public show of support for Europe ❤️🇪🇺 Thank you #MicheleSerra and @larepubblica.bsky.social

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Dear @financialtimes.com , why is there no clickable share button to @bsky.app built into your articles ? Why only FB, X and LinkedIn? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

An excellent episode — that also contains a real nugget: the US have forbidden the UK to share their UK intel gathered in conjunction with US with Ukraine. Now *that’s* what I call a special relationship! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Is Trump trying to topple Zelenskyy?

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Pretty good, short address to the nation by Macron tonight. Heavy emphasis on Russian threat (made a point of taking up Z’s arguments in Oval office re Putin) rather than Trump focus. Opening convo on extending French nukes deterrent to Germany (not a new story, but 1st time Germany has asked).

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Dublin was always wonderfully charming, it’s become ever cooler 😎🇨🇮

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The perks of doing early morning TV in Paris 😊

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Yes: so striking that Vance picked the fight. This was a planned attack designed to corner and humiliate Zelensky. Obscene, and the direct continuation of Vance’s Paris and Munich behaviour. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance

Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after Munich

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What’s also extraordinary is the fact that Vance is the one that lit the fuse and fed Trump his lines. It’s only after Vance decided to fake taking offence that Zelensky lost it and Trump joined in.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A piece in Germany's FAZ making the case that a cautious fiscal policy, such as Britain's in the 1930s, cannot prepare a country for war. www.faz.net/pro/weltwirt...

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

From Trump via @FT “It’s been a long time since we’ve had an election. You have leadership [in Ukraine] now that’s allowed a war to go on that should have never even happened.” These are the words of a tyrant. They should be enough to force Europe into unity at any cost.

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Un peu en retard — but replay available! 😊

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Am really starting to think that the right way to understand #Trump is as ‘Repo man’. Takes all your stuff from you on whatever pretence, real or false — and you have to buy it all back. At his price.

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Interesting that commentators are increasingly and naturally referring to the ‘Trump regime’ rather than the ‘Trump administration’. #framing

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

OK, so keeping up with the US by going backwards…? 👍🏻🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe we complete financial markets union, increase our defence spending, and sound a clear collective ‘no’ when a NATO ally threatens an EU partner’s territorial sovereignty, instead? www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

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Von der Leyen builds bonfire of EU’s environmental red tape

Brussels hopes simplifying green compliance rules will boost Europe’s flagging economy. Green groups fear something more sinister.

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Well, they’ve managed to make the #inauguration feel like a cross between a Miss America pageant and a mob wedding.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 14/01/2025

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Exposing the naïveté and lack of digital literacy that underpins the UK’s #AIActionPlan … As @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social says: there are so many fab people working in tech in the #UK. Why are they not in PM’s team?

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Finished the #Musk/Weidel bad date… we buried Jimmy Carter in more ways than one today.

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Listening to #Musk/Weidel chat in the other place. Pretty unedifying. Fact is, for all his faults, craziness, and complete fuckwitery Musk isn’t stupid and you can actually hear him struggle to deal with just how plodding and thick Weidel is. Lots of ‘yahs’, silences, and weird giggling #BadDateVibe

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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

In #Austria “The question of how to save billions of Euros to comply with the EU deficit of three percent proved so (…) impossible, ultimately impeding their ability to prevent a far-right government”. A great piece by @gabrielagreilinger Cautionary tale… #France euobserver.com/eu-political...

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Austria’s far-right new government: history doesn’t repeat itself — but it rhymes

The “Kickl-prevention strategy” has failed. Months have been wasted in talks that culminated in the failure of the three negotiating parties to prevent a far-right Austrian government, providing ferti...

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