Public Engagement

Blog Posts

‘France-Italie : deux styles d’extrême droite pour une même normalisation’, Newspaper article, Mediapart (June 2024)

‘Europee, cosa si giocano Meloni e Salvini: la corsa all’egemonia sulla destra può minare la stabilità del governo’, Newspaper article, La Repubblica (May 2024)

‘France: the 2024 European Parliament elections – a pre-presidential election?’ Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (April 2024)

‘Macron or Le Pen? Assessing Round 1 of France’s Presidential Election’, Blog Post, EA WorldView (April 2022)

‘Flexible Europe: Differentiated integration, fairness, and democracy’, Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (February 2022)

‘Europe in far-right ideology’, Blog Post, Ideology, Theory, Practice (August 2021)

‘10 Years of Marine Le Pen – When gaining a lot may not be enough’, Blog Post, Populism in Action Project (March 2021)

‘Eurosceptic or Euro-ambivalent? Understanding the positions of far right parties on Europe’, Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (September 2020)

‘Europe as ideological resource: How far right parties can benefit from European integration’, Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (May 2020)

‘Europe from the far right’, Blog Post, Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (December 2019)

‘Pro-Europe and anti-EU? Reviewing the far right’s view of Europe’, Blog Post, Open Democracy (January 2019)

‘Reflections on the “open letter” debate: a middle way to approaching the radical right?', Blog Post (with Julian Göpffarth), Open Democracy (November 2018)

‘What the far right thinks of Europe.' Blog post, EU Visions (October 2018)

‘Right? Left? Neither? Why Radical Right Parties Reject the Politics of Left and Right.' Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (May 2018)

‘Where does Florian Philippot’s resignation leave the Front National?' Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (September 2017)

‘The threat of ‘Frexit’ may have subsided, but Europe will remain a salient issue on the French political agenda’, Blog Post, LSE Brexit Blog, (May 2017)

‘The Amazing Race: Tracking the twists and turns in France’s presidential election’, Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (March 2017)

‘En Marche? Who is Emmanuel Macron and why he stands a chance to win the French presidency’, Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (January 2017, second most read blog post of 2017 on EUROPP blog)

‘Les Républicains primary: The runners and riders as the French centre-right selects its presidential candidate’, Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (September 2016)

‘Europe’s far right parties have also been toying with the idea of quitting the EU’, Blog Post, LSE Brexit Vote Blog (March 2016)

‘A cross-European platform to undermine the EU? Eurosceptic parties cooperate to create a vision for “another Europe”', Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (February 2016)

‘The first round of the French regional elections: the far right turn’, Blog Post, LSE European Public Policy and Politics Blog (December 2015)

Podcasts & Invited Talks

‘Can the US and the EU still promote democracy abroad?' (5 December 2022, Columbia University Graduate Center)

‘Populists and the pandemic’ (20 September 2022, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

‘The far-right in France and the 2022 elections’ (11 May 2022, Institut Français d’Ecosse)

‘How to counter the rise of the far right in Europe’, Podcast with the FES, New Statesman (April 2022)

‘Macron’s presidency, one year on’ (3 May 2023, Civil Service French Language Network)

‘The French Presidential Elections of 2022: what they mean for France and for Europe’ (30 March 2022, London School of Economics public events programme)

‘Flexible Europe: Differentiated integration, Democracy and Domination’, Podcast, New Books Network (January 2022)

‘Populism and the Pandemic - A Comparative Perspective: UK/France’ (9 February 2021, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Brasília International Virtual Lecture Series)

‘Protecting the Nation from Migrants, Decline, and Other Threats? Radical Right Emergency Politics and their Purposes’ (30 June 2020, TU Dresden Online Webinar)

‘Should we fear the rise of the far right?' , Podcast, LSE IQ Episode 22 (February 2019)

‘Macron En Marche: navigating French and European politics’, Panelist, Policy Network, London (15 June 2017)

‘Why Britain Voted To Leave the EU – and What It Might Mean For The General Election’, Panelist, London School of Economics, London (27 April 2017)

‘Right-wing populism on the rise: Progressive counter-strategies for Europe’, Panelist, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Brussels (20 April 2016)

Media

Experience with press and broadcast media (including BBC Mundo, Bloomberg, Bulgarian National Radio, Euronews, France24, France Info, The Independent, Le Soir, Libération, L’Unità, Monocle radio, MSNBC, NBC, New Statesman, Sky News, Times Radio)