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‘Anti-European’ populists on track for big gains in EU elections, says report (www.theguardian.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There can be no logical explanation for this that has anything to do with EU policy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Of course not

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What EU policies do you have in mind that are bothersome to populists?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Potentially, all of them. Technically, EU politics are “not your country’s” politics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Spoken like a true populists. It's not about the content of the policy but how they are made, only that they're made like they are in every member state, usually enjoy a vast support in every country and create a benefit for the people. See USB-C rules. If the opposition is only how those policies and laws are made, the critic is not substantial. In every country sone rural voters influence the life of city people and vice versa. It's the same with the EU, just bigger. Please tell me what people actually reject. This was not supposed to be a got ya question. If the only criticism is the order of the union then it's not the policies fault but rather how populists speak about it

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please tell me what people actually reject.

I can only speak for myself now. Perhaps this much about me: I am a data protection-loving communist. As such, I am bothered by unjust laws in the EU such as data retention and the constant feeling that we are ultimately powerless here because no matter what we do, our future is decided in Brussels/Strasbourg. Germany in particular tends to deport politicians who have proven to be the enemy of the free web in this country to the European Parliament (Axel Voss, Ursula von der Leyen, etc.).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You know that the EU is the reason why Germany had to repeal and repeal again their Mass Data Retention Laws https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/bundesverwaltungsgericht-vorratsdatenspeicherung-rechtswidrig-100.html