Introduction

The increasing importance and popularity of radical populist-nationalist and conservative-sovereignist parties and movements, whose common idea is a hostile attitude towards the European Union and its policies, poses a serious political problem in contemporary Europe. Two ‘ideal types’ of anti-Europeanist attitudes can be identified within this current wave of Euroscepticism, namely: 1) the Euro-realism of the Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament and 2) the Euroscepticism of the Identity and Democracy group, who are essentially united by criticism of the current model of the European Union which is based on the doctrine of European federalism and striving to build a European super-state, as well as the core European values which it has identified. The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of this criticism through the prism of the narrative of contemporary nationalist parties at the transnational level in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe.