The Italian Right-Wing and the European Integration Process: The Case of the Italian Social Movement

The main Italian political parties are characterized by different, often diverging, visions of Europe. My article will focus on the right side of the political spectrum, a space in which very different, at times irreconcilable, instances are kept together. Their unifying element can be identified not by chance in a negation, anti-communism, although it too is declined in very different forms. Within this world, the article will deal with the Italian Social Movement (M.S.I), an extreme right-wing party that refers to fascism. The M.S.I. develops a political discourse that is in many ways redundant on Europe, considering it first and foremost a metapolitical entity rather than a historical reality. This discourse, however, developed interdependently with the party’s empathy for the Atlantic and anti-communist side.