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Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban made his intentions clear long ago: 'Europe will be a Europe of nations, or no Europe at all'

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Memo to the incoming far-right: we already have a ‘Europe of Nations’

Far-right politicians regularly say they want a ‘Europe of nations’. In other words, a Europe where it is not unelected eurocrats in Brussels who are in charge, but the member states.

With far-right parties no longer talking about exits from the EU but entering European politics instead to change Europe from the inside - a reaction to Brexit, ferocious econom...

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Dutch Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC. She also writes columns for Foreign Policy and De Standaard. This piece was adapted from a recent column in NRC.

Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban made his intentions clear long ago: 'Europe will be a Europe of nations, or no Europe at all'

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Dutch Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC. She also writes columns for Foreign Policy and De Standaard. This piece was adapted from a recent column in NRC.

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