Growing nationalism and Euroscepticism beyond the UK and the effects thereof on global citizenship and global cooperation
Post-Brexit and the rise of nationalism within Europe What transpired on 29 March 2017 was more than Britain's triggering Article 50 of the 2007 Treaty on European Union (TEU) and a process of negotiations about what a new relationship between Britain and Brussels would look like. Having 52% of Britons opting to leave the economic experiment known as the European Union was only one benchmark of raising nationalism, increasing Euroscepticism, and a growing mistrust of globalization in general. What Europe has seen is the advance of more right-wing and conservative political parties gaining greater political power. Examples are the Freedom Party in Austria leading the government, with its coalition partner, the Golden Dawn in Greece, the Five Star Movement in Italy, Jobbik in Hungary, the strong showing of right-wing French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen from the National Front in 2017, and the rise of the far-right Islamophobic party, the Germany Alternative for Germany...