2y ago

‘Anti-European’ populists on track for big gains in EU elections, says report

www.theguardian.com

Polling in all 27 EU member states, combined with modelling of how national parties performed in past European parliament elections, shows radical right parties are on course to finish first in nine countries including Austria, France and Poland. Projected second- or third-place finishes in another nine countries, including Germany, Spain, Portugal and Sweden, could for the first time produce a majority rightwing coalition in the parliament of Christian Democrats, conservatives and radical right MEPs.

The authors called on policymakers to examine the trends that are driving current voting patterns in Europe and to develop clear narratives that address the necessity of a global Europe in an increasingly fraught and dangerous geopolitical climate.

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2y ago

‘Anti-European’ populists on track for big gains in EU elections, says report

www.theguardian.com /world/2024/jan/24/anti-european-populists-on-track-for-big-gains-in-eu-elections-says-report

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Man splitting up the EU would be one of the most insane, shooting-your-own-dick-off geopolitical blunders in all of modern history. Just ridiculously fucking stupid.
- Just ridiculously fucking stupid.
  That's how you can be sure it is the goal of the conservatives. It always is. Always.
  
  I think a fair number of those shitlords are being paid off by certain parties that have a vested interest in the dissolution of the EU and NATO, for that matter.
  If anything the EU needs to band closer together and start doing something resembling federalization if they want to remain truly relevant going forward. The world is a fucking mess right now.
  
  German conservatives are 100% pro-EU. German communists are not.
- The Brits would love for everyone to forget Brexit
  
  I think everyone there will be remembering that for a long time
There can be no logical explanation for this that has anything to do with EU policy.
- Of course not
- What EU policies do you have in mind that are bothersome to populists?
  
  Potentially, all of them. Technically, EU politics are “not your country’s” politics.
- The policy of letting in migrants. Remember the migrant crisis a couple years back? It's still on going.
  
  What crisis? I’m having a lot of problems, inflation, rent increases, not getting doctors appointments, slow internet, lack of digitalization, the glooming outlook on climate change, shitty public transportation, my government funding a genocide to name a few of them.
  I couldn’t care less about some people coming here from somewhere else. I don’t have any negative consequences of this in my daily life. But all of the above are impacting my quality of life every day. I don’t care what kind of fearmongering bs right wing dipshit politicians are making up to scam people into voting for them. I want the above issues and many others to be addressed.
Blame a global trend toward neoliberal economics, which uses financial incentives to form right wing leaning governments. Once something starts trending towards authoritarianism, it's just a matter of time before the irrationality cascade turns it into a militant government and ultimately into fascism.
So many people are afraid of communal wealth, of socialist ideas, that they would rather plunge the world into a fiery out of suffering to avoid losing wealth in their own life.
Just remember Europeans that "Brexit means Brexit"
But what was Brexit when we voted on Brexit? What did it mean? It meant Brexit!
GDPR and gatekeeper law was too good for them, they need to enshittify the parliament because there is no free lunch (we make sure of it)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Populist “anti-European” parties are heading for big gains in June’s European elections that could shift the parliament’s balance sharply to the right and jeopardise key pillars of the EU’s agenda including climate action, polling suggests.
Projected second- or third-place finishes in another nine countries, including Germany, Spain, Portugal and Sweden, could for the first time produce a majority rightwing coalition in the parliament of Christian Democrats, conservatives and radical right MEPs.
The researchers said the implications of the vote were far-reaching, arguing the next European parliament could block laws on Europe’s green deal and take a harder line on other areas of EU sovereignty including migration, enlargement and support for Ukraine.
The left and populist right, including the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) and far-right Identity and Democracy (ID), are set to emerge as the main victors, with a real possibility of entering a majority coalition for the first time.
Their voices willcarry most weight in several founding-member states, the polling suggests, with Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy forecast to boost its MEP tally to 27 and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally on track to win a record 25 seats.
Populist eurosceptic parties are likely to come first in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia, and second or third in Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden.
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