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The European Union, an unique entity on the global scene, is at the crossroads. Original blueprint to create supranational subject is broken, under the pressure of Constitutional crisis (2005) and later economic and financial one (a spectre of Grexit). The process has speeded up in 2014 when external security went to the agenda, followed by unprecedented migrant wave coming to the EU in 2015. As result former euroenthusiasm has been replaced by euroskeptic forces, mostly of populist or nationalist nature what was so strongly confirmed by the British Brexit vote in June 2016. Those accumulated crises brought about many new division lines within the EU, well defined in this study – of political, economic, social, but even religious and cultural nature. Dominating till now liberal mainstream is retreating, while ‘illiberal democracy’, however meant, or even authoritarian solutions are starting to flourish. This is an extraordinary era when the whole project of European integration is at stake. Time to react and to sacrifice a lot to save it, if we don’t want to retreat under the new challenges surrounding us. The EU can be saved, even if it be different than before – the Author claims.
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The growth of nationalism and communitarian egoisms are frequently explained in terms of populism. This diagnosis not only says little about the essence of the problem, but it prevents a rational response to the associated risks. Instead, we propose to describe the current situation in terms of „social unrest”, which is expressed both in the reactionary attitudes of the extreme right, as well as in radical left. Unrest also points to the broader phenomenon of social movements, which express and respond to the real problems and conflicts of contemporary Europe. In place of uninformative view of the „spectrum of populism” we offer a complex interpretation, which considers anti-systemic movements as a reaction to the deficiencies of liberal democracy, turbo-capitalism, the crisis of political life, a response to painful costs of modernization, pathologies of mass culture and the primacy of science oriented culture. We also discuss the manifestations of a separate phenomenon of Manichaeism and political cynicism, which we consider as significant for populism.
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