Far-right parties are again on the rise across Europe, driven by a sense of identity loss and popular backlash against rising migration levels and costly climate policies, among other factors. Meanwhile, the steady erosion of a traditional political practice in Europe known as the cordon sanitaire -- in which mainstream political parties isolate and marginalize extremist forces -- has enabled those far-right parties to increasingly enter coalition governments across the Continent. Material constraints have so far forced far-right parties to moderate their most radical proposals upon taking power, while the center-right is still largely expected to hold across most countries, as well as in the European Parliament. And yet, Europe is still poised to see significant policy shifts in areas such as climate, migration and EU enlargement, as moderate parties try to compete with rising far-right parties by co-opting them in coalition governments and incorporating their proposals into their own...
