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About Rita Barbosa Lobo

Rita Barbosa Lobo is a program assistant for the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the German Marshall Fund, where she serves as the assistant to the head of European operations.

In her studies, she focused on European Union law and common law, graduating from the University of Kent with a Bachelor of Laws and the University of Amsterdam with a Master of Laws. Prior to joining ASD, Rita was a Schuman trainee at the European Parliamentary Research Service, External Policies Unit. Before that she was a program assistant at the European Policy Centre, Europe in the World program and a research fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies. Rita’s interests lie in European foreign policy.

EU Elections 2024: The Unclear Impact of the Shift to the Right

The impact of the European Parliament’s rightward shift will depend on the extent to which the far right can unify as well as on the willingness of the center to engage with parties to their right. The 2024 European parliamentary elections were long [...]

2025-03-14T11:33:12-04:00June 12, 2024|By Vassilis Ntousas and Rita Barbosa Lobo|

An Exception, No More: Portugal Seduced by the Far Right

Almost half a century after its Carnation Revolution that led to the end of the country’s dictatorship, Portugal’s political landscape is once again marked by the remarkable rise of the far right. Last Sunday’s election saw the ruling left-leaning S [...]

2024-03-15T11:47:50-04:00March 15, 2024|By Rita Barbosa Lobo and Vassilis Ntousas|