European Studies Quarterly

Radical right-wing Eurosceptics as public orators in the European Parliament: the logic of persuasion as an instrument to break consensus

2023, 2023, No. 4

Filip Tereszkiewicz

0000-0001-8551-0250

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.23.3

Publication date

27.12.2023

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology, international relations

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Polish, English

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine how members of the political group Identity and Democracy (I&D) attempt to break the existing pro-Ukrainian consensus in the European Parliament (EP). The adopted hypothesis is that I&D MEPs do that through the mechanism of the logic of persuasion. It was verified by analysing speeches during EP plenary debates on the situation in Ukraine and looking for evidence of this mechanism within them. The analysis demonstrated that almost 1/4 of the I&D political group uses the logic of persuasion in all their speeches to break the pro-Ukrainian consensus in the EP, but only six MEPs are likely to do that intentionally. However, some of the analysed MEPs use this mechanism in their speeches to undermine the consensus on migration and asylum policy.

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