Gabriela Greilinger
@gabrielagreilinger
Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Far-right politics & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine, but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind | gabrielagreilinger.com
Festung Österreich™, brought to you von der Nicht-FPÖ-Regierung
Der Bundeskanzler ebenso stabil unterwegs, wenn es darum geht, rechte Narrative zu amplifizieren.
Ich lasse das hier mal so stehen. Das ist eine Ausdrucksweise ["Europa darf und wird nicht ein weiteres Mal *überrannt werden*"], die man sonst eher mit einer anderen Partei assoziiert. Und das Ganze wurde auch nur auf der rechtsextremen Plattform X gepostet, hier natürlich nicht.
I take it as some sort of promotion, just with more work for the same pay.
Ich weiß wirklich nicht mehr, was ich dazu sagen soll. Die ÖVP bewirbt auf ihren Social-Media-Kanälen ihre Abschiebepolitik und bedient sich dabei der Sprache, Bilder und Symbolik der Rechtsextremen.
I'm sorry, I forgot that the story is CDU/CSU moving to the left, not Fidesz moving to the far-right 🤡
This Saturday, an antifascist demonstration in Vienna was disrupted by neo-Nazis. Police appeared, monitoring the peaceful antifascist protesters, then used pepper spray against them and arrested one woman before escorting the neo-Nazis to the metro. 🤷🏻♀️ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
It's 2026, and the International Society of Political Psychology fails to include a single woman on its panel. However, they apparently are brave enough to include a professor who has been found to have violated his university's anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy.
Tamás Sulyok, the Fidesz-installed Hungarian president signed Tisza‘s constitutional amendment, which aimed at removing him (and other Fidesz loyalists) from office. That means he won’t be the Hungarian president form tomorrow onward. telex.hu/belfold/2026...
Viktor Orbán suddenly has very strong feelings towards democracy
This speaks volumes about the entanglements between the parliamentary far right and the right-wing extremist activist scene. FPÖ-MP Fürst's post about Sellner and Vlaardingerbroek's ethnic-cleansing act, featuring an FPÖ video with the Dutch extreme-right activist, reposted by Martin Sellner.
Doktorvater @casmudde.bsky.social today in action at the ECPR Extremism & Democracy summer school in Bologna ☺️💡
The NGO "SOS Mitmensch" has already recorded 94 instances of networking and support activities between the parliamentary far-right FPÖ and the right-wing extremist scene in the first six months of 2026. That's more than were recorded in the entire year of 2024. 3/ www.sosmitmensch.at/rechtsextrem...
Der FPÖ-gegründete Radiosender berichtet vom von den rechtsextremen Aktivisten Sellner und Vlaadingerbroeck ins Leben gerufenen "Save Europe Act" als "migrationskritisch" und von der bösen EU, laut der der Act gegen die Grundrechtecharta verstößt. Es ist ein Sprachrohr für die extreme Rechte.
The Economist doing Economist things (that is, normalising the far right and using terms like "hard-right" and "populist")
Looking forward to my first European political science conference this week in Catania, and to meeting old and new friends & colleagues in this lovely city! ☀️
The debate is apparently complemented by this panel, which includes political scientist Ralph Schoellhammer, who works for Orbán's MCC and, let's put it that way, appears to be on rather friendly terms with the far right himself.
Just leaving this here as another example: Mehdi Hasan meets the AfD's Krah on Al Jazeera's "Head to Head" to, I don't know, discuss whether the AfD is a threat to democracy, because surely he'll have an unbiased opinion on that. Krah is introduced as "one of the AfD's most controversial figures".
Etwas seltsame Darstellung. Zuerst erfahren wir, dass wir es anscheinend mit einer "Generation Rechts" zu tun haben. Dann lernen wir, dass junge Menschen bei den Bundestagswahlen 2025 gar nicht häufiger AfD gewählt haben, sondern dass die Linke bei dieser Altersgruppe besser abgeschnitten hat. 1/
I just saw this short video and initially thought it was a promotional video by these far-right activists. Turns out it's been clipped from a report by Spiegel TV, and these far-right activists also think it's great publicity.
Quite an example for the mainstreaming and normalisation of the far right. Compares FdI with "Western Conservatism" and then discusses Meloni's (apparently sudden?) "shift to the right". Meanwhile, Meloni and her party are both clearly far-right.
Wondering what exactly Politico considers a push towards the "mainstream". Meloni spearheaded the "Albania model", seeking to outsource detention centres and return hubs for migrants outside the EU. Something the European Parliament has now adopted and that far-right MEPs & activists now celebrate.
The Austrian far-right FPÖ's radio channel aired an interview with Philipp Huemer, managing director of the extreme-right "Institute for Remigration", which was founded by right-wing extremist Martin Sellner, discussing the institute's tasks and ethnic cleansing goals.
Wen oder was der neue ORF-Chef als "demokratische Mitte" sieht, will ich jetzt lieber nicht wissen. Aber er bedient damit halt ein Narrativ, das Rechtsaußen in die Hände spielt.
Orbán may be gone, but my collection of books about him keeps expanding. Looking forward to reading this. 📖
Marie-Christine Giuliani, an MP of the Austrian far-right FPÖ, also signed the ethnic cleansing act by European extreme-right activists.
Not to toot our own horns again, but see this for our analysis of far-right party voting on socio-economic issues in the European Parliament: www.etui.org/publications...
Excellent (if damning) review. And, of course, far-right parties are not "economically left". As has already been shown in numerous analyses and studies.