RADIKAAL

23. Louis Wierenga on EKRE and far right in Estonia

November 01, 2020 RADIKAAL Season 1 Episode 23
RADIKAAL
23. Louis Wierenga on EKRE and far right in Estonia
Show Notes

My guest is Louis Wierenga, a former US Marine who went to study in Canada befoire moving East. He is currently a junior Research Fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu, where he works on a PhD on the far right in contemporary Estonia and Latvia. You can follow him on Twitter at @louis_wierenga.

Louis and I talk about far right politics in Estonia, in particular the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), currently a member of the national coalition government, and its "alt-right" youth branch, Blue Awakening. We also discuss the link to the "alt-right" in the US.