Hello and welcome to EU today, a podcast from the Center for European Studies, a Jean-Monnais Center of Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thank you to the Erasmus Plus program of the European

Commission, the EU delegation to the U.S., and the U.S. Department of Education for supporting

our center and its programs. On this podcast, we sit down with scholars and policy leaders to discuss

pressing issues facing the European Union. We hope you enjoy it.

On this podcast, we'll be interviewing professors Jennifer Fitzgerald and Mark Helbling.

They visited UNC Chapel Hill to participate in a panel entitled The Political Divides that are

transforming the EU on March 20, 2019. The panel was organized by and also featured UNC Professor Rassan

Maxwell, a Jean-Money Center of Excellence, key faculty member. Jennifer Fitzgerald is Associate

Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. A specialist in comparative

political behavior, much of Fitzgerald's work examines the ways in which social context

shapes political attitudes and vote choice in advanced democratic societies. Mark Helbling is

full professor in political sociology at the Department of Political Science at the University of

Bamberg and a research fellow at the Vietz-ed-B, the Berlin Social Science Center.

He works on immigration and citizenship policies, nationalism, nationalities, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, and right-wing populism.

Interviewing professors Fitzgerald and Helbling is Stephanie Shady, a PhD candidateD. candidate here at UNC in political science.

So today we have with us Professor Jennifer Fitzgerald and Mark Helping.

And they're here to talk to us today about immigration and different ideological and social factors that are happening in Europe across different countries.

So for both of you, thank you so much. And there are a variety of terms out there that are trying to get at how we describe

these political parties that we're seeing in Europe today.

Far right, radical right, nationalist, populist, anti-immigrant,

all of these different terms.

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