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.

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.

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  • Gazumi
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    371 year ago

    With every economic downturn, the populists will always point the finger at migrants and “external beurocrats denying us our freedoms to self govern”. Like any snakeoil salesmen, it a tonic to cure every ailment.

    • @P1r4nha@feddit.de
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      101 year ago

      That’s mostly because the “Elite” is rarely affected by these economic downturns, sometimes even gets richer quicker. That there’s a high potential for lashing out when people see the wealth gap widen one way or another, shouldn’t be a surprise.

      • Ooops
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        61 year ago

        Surprising no? But still sad as they are -again and again- too stupid to lash out at the actual reason and are easily manipulated to target someone else. And that’s usually either low income classes or foreigners, not coincidently because those are lacking a lobby.

    • Yeather
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      31 year ago

      But is it really? All of a sudden every place with unfettered immigration begins to have major economic downturns. Or is it mass immigration has put such a strain on our unprepared systems and infrastructure that our economy suffers in turn.

      • alterforlett
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        241 year ago

        Unfettered immigration? Theres exactly not a single country who has that. Some more strict than others, but none unfettered.

        You know what other countries have economic downturns at the moment? Damn near everyone. Get your head out of your ass and start pointing fingers in the right direction. Not the weakest or labour immigration.

        Christ, this hateful bullshit has been spouted thousands of years and the only times it’s ruined societies has been when it’s not immigration, but colonisation.

  • LanternEverywhere
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    231 year ago

    How many times can someone vote for the Leopards Eating Faces party again and again after they’ve eaten your face a million times already?

    • TheMongoose
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      91 year ago

      I mean, if we can’t be a properly grown up functioning member of the international community any more, we should at least be a cautionary tale…

  • @Szymon@lemmy.ca
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    171 year ago

    Can I have some good news sometimes to think my kids aren’t inheriting a giant warmongering sweltering shithole of a wprldt?