Bc. Lenka Loučková 2015/2016 Impact of the economic crisis on the position of Dutch Freedom party towards the European Union Abstract This thesis focuses on the relationship between the economic crisis and the attitude of the Dutch radical right populist Freedom Party (PVV) towards the European Union (EU). The aim of this thesis is to determine whether the economic crisis influenced the opinion of PVV on the EU in a negative way and whether it caused the shift of the party in the categorization of attitudes towards the EU by Petr Kopecky and Cas Mudde. The research also aims at contributing to the wider discussion about the nature of right radicalism, populism and Euroscepticism in the EU by pointing to the similarities and differences between PVV and other European parties belonging to the radical right populist family. The time frame of the research starts with the origins of the party in the year 2005 and ends with the last important elections that PVV participated in, the European Parliament elections in 2014. Election manifestos, as well as official statements of the party and its representatives on the Internet and in the media are used for the analysis. The research itself is focusing on three areas: EU's institutional setup and the direction of European integration; issues related to movement of. ; Bc. Lenka Loučková 2015/2016 Vplyv ekonomickej krízy na postoj holandskej Strany slobody voči Európskej únii Abstrakt Táto diplomová práca sa zaoberá vplyvom ekonomickej krízy na postoj holandskej radikálne pravicovej populistickej Strany slobody (PVV) voči Európskej únii (EÚ). Kladie si za cieľ zistiť, či ekonomická kríza negatívne ovplyvnila nazeranie strany PVV na EÚ a či spôsobila jej posun v kategorizácii postojov voči EÚ podľa Petra Kopeckého a Casa Muddeho. Takisto má za cieľ zasadiť výskum do širšej diskusie o povahe pravicového radikalizmu, populizmu a euroskepticizmu v EÚ prostredníctvom poukázania na podobnosti a rozdiely medzi stranou PVV a ostatnými európskymi stranami z radikálne pravicovej ...