After the 2008 financial crisis, anti-austerity movements such as Occupy, Blockupy and the Indignados Change Finance developed, aimed at protesting the cutbacks and deregulations of the European Union. Though their protests took place all over Europe, the actual impact they had on politics was limited. Lack of cooperation on a transnational level is one aspect that hindered these groups. Bernd Bonfert concludes this in his research, and will defend his PhD thesis at Radboud University on 15 September.