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International Centre for Defence and Security
LMC 2011

Right on? Do the New Radical Parties Challenge the Consensus – or the System?

Europe, Extremism, Populism

Speakers

Steven Erlanger

Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times

Iivi Anna Masso

Editor-in-Chief, Diplomaatia newspaper

Ivan Krastev

Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

György Schöpflin

Member of European Parliament

Moderator

Graham Avery

Honorary Director General of the European Commission

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