What Europe's Elections Were Really About
- Europe's impoverishment, resulting from its economic underperformance and unrestrained immigration, mostly from Islamic countries, has caused its voters to opt for national identity, nationalism, regionalism, and theCHANCE
to express themselves through a referendum on Europe. Austria's Freedom Party warmed voters of the prospect of becoming "strangers in their own country."
- Thanks to this promise -- a referendum on Britain's membership in the European Union -- and that Britain never adopted the euro as itsCURRENCY
- Everywhere in Europe, electorates have lost confidence in the bureaucrats of the European Union in Brussels and those of the European CentralBANK
Europe is in political turmoil. In ever larger numbers, European voters are turning their backs on the established parties and are flocking to populist or nationalist parties on both the right and the left. This shift is happening all over Europe. Last month, one could see it in Britain, Spain, Poland, Italy and Austria. What all the parties have in common is their dissatisfaction with the policies of the European Union, whether because of immigration, the EU's austerity policies, or its social/ethical agenda.
On Sunday, May 24, the municipal elections in Spain and the presidential elections in Poland were huge successes for new parties and politicians that, until a year ago, hardly any of their present voters had ever even heard of.
On Sunday, May 24, the municipal elections in Spain and the presidential elections in Poland were huge successes for new parties and politicians that, until a year ago, hardly any of their present voters had ever even heard of.
