Rising euro-skepticism must be a wake-up call for Europe

 

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Wilders might be too Islamophobic for Marine Le Pen who tries to get a more moderate image for her party ever since her father Jean-Marie Le Pen stepped down.
At the same time Wilders is quite Israel-friendly which might be in turn problematic for other right-wing parties.

 

Nonetheless is Guy Verhofstadt right when he states that “rising euro-skepticism must be a wake-up call for Europe.”

If we just let it happen that right-extremists can destroy the European project, then it would be the failure for all of us who just sit on the sidelines.

It is the same issues that need to change:
more information on what the EU is doing
– from youngsters to senior citizens,
more media reporting about the work in the EU,
particularly in the European Parliament, and the acknowledgement of national politicians
that EU politics has become national politics.

 

As long as the established parties in the respective member states do not seriously change their behavior towards the EU in how they communicate it to their citizens and do not send popular candidates that are somewhat known to the broader public to the European Parliament, the more likely it will be that right-extremists will gain ground.

 

~ Europe’s anti-EU right-extremist parties try to unite by Johannes Langer

 

 

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