Embodied by charismatic leaders like Pablo Iglesias and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, these parties take a more combative attitude towards the European institutions and seek to tap into anti-elite sentiment, but lack a coherent strategic vision for what to do with their momentum. ..…
During the war against Iraq, the neocons went after the French for their inveterate anti-Americanism. Of course, once that hate spree was over, our warmongers went back to their preferred European whipping boys. . ..…
I witnessed this in the years of tug-of-war over the anti-money laundering law. ... O’Reilly summed it up clearly: “This phenomenon nourishes doubts about the democratic legitimacy of the Union and promotes anti-European resentments,” she warned. ..…
The result has been in both antidemocratic and anti- European political parties all across the continent, from UK, France, and Germany to Hungary, Poland, and Estonia. ..…
Motivation is obviously another factor and on that the anti-Haftar forces might be stronger, because they are defending themselves”. Crisis Group phone interview, European security expert, Tunis, 17 may 2019.Hide Footnote . ..…
-Political parties and their leadership must sign up to the full IHRA definition of Anti-semitism. . -Every European Country must appoint a special government envoy on anti-Semitism where one already doesn’t exist . ..…
Salvini, who has attracted the admiration of European far-right leaders for his anti-immigrant, anti-Islam stances, makes a show of dismissing extremist labels and the existence of fascist ideology on the Italian political spectrum. . ..…
Their obsession with reforming the EU as a progressive force means they do nothing more than write stacks of papers with a new gee-whiz reform proposal that spawns are talkfest and gets lost in the reality of a European system that is resistant at the core to fundamental change. . Being..…
For these people, nationalist populism and sovereignism are rarely an existential credo but rather an excellent smokescreen under which to counter even the slightest attempts at external control by European institutions. . Meanwhile, anti-liberalism and the lambasting of civil society (Oh,..…
In his front Poland, Jaroslaw Kurski flies European Union flag, blue with circle of yellow stars, and he carries one during street protests against government that has chipped away at his young democracy... ..…
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