For the first time in its history, we could be looking at a genuinely rightwing European Union

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/18/european-union-right-wing-ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-commission-hard-right-parties

by Affectionate_Cat293

37 comments

  1. We are living 100 years ago, repeating our past.

  2. As a staunch Europeist and left-leaning person, I am not happy but I accept it. People feel (are?) poorer and more concerned, about the economy, the future, and their safety. They feel that the left-wing parties have failed them. I understand those who voted for the far right.

    So the left should learn from this and do better next time. I personally feel that there’s a lot of open problems in the EU that should be addressed by competent and not ideological politicians. Let’s focus on that.

  3. Ahh yes, Von der Leyen is concerned about democratically elected officals, not the way it’s done in her book.

  7. Neoliberal technocrats in the EU are responsible for this. Austerity is the main dish they serve.
    Left wing parties, instead of staying loyal to their roots, supporting and organizing the local workers have gone mambo jumbo on immigration, which hurts local workers and equally importantly has converted entire city blocks into gjettos, and identity politics.

    It is not surprising the needle has moved to the right wing since they ars anti immigration and pro workers on paper. Lets see how it plays out, maybe a huge shock is needed for the EU to change, else it probably dies

  8. DUH ! Glad even these guys woke up now… on the other hand they had a protofascist plutocrat government for 15 years themselves and they didn’t quite notice

  9. The European Union is known for not being business friendly and too regulated, the right wing governments will either fix the issues that the left has refused or is unable to fix, or the left will learn from their mistakes.

  10. I am a centrist, more often leaning left than right, but I don’t see all of this as a problem. I’ve been following european and EU politics for more than half my life now and there has always been an eb and flow to this and, in the end, the whole system corrects itself to show the leanings of national governments and the populances. This tension is what makes democracy so great.

  11. The left is anacronistic in the current timeline

  12. That´s like saying Yeltsin ran a right-wing Soviet Union. It´s nonsense journalism.

  15. We should not abandon efforts to create partnership model, instead of sticking to dominator model.

    Problem with right wing is that they want to stick to dominator model. They don’t want to see women as human, just as objects. This has major consequences, if we drop progress that was already achieved .

  16. European Union was found on free trade, back then that was definitely considered right-wing.

  17. Russian-supported politicians winning all up and down the western world.

    Left-leaning parties ignoring real concerns about immigration and economics.

    The right will swing in, totally screw things up unimaginably, and the left will get voted back in again having learned nothing.

    Cycle repeats.

  18. its that non-rigtwing parties dont take immigration seriously, polls have shown people dont want so large immigration, and for many this was important enough for them to vote rightwing even if they otherwise dont share these parties’s views.

    a niche of leftist-but-antiimmigration party remains unfilled in many countries, so people just vote for the only parties who say they will stop migration.

    im not here to say if thats right or wrong, and your standing on immigration is for you to decide, but thats kinda what is happening.

  20. I don’t mind as long as they don’t go further to the right

  22. And its going to get worse after AI finally comes into the picture

  23. Most premises the EU was based on were more of right-leaning ideas. And yes, despite the EEC being supported by anti-fascist sentiments, it was still being more centrists even when it came to be a battleground for the clash between capitalist America and socialist USSR.

  24. Let’s see whether right-wingers of multiple countries create something good, neutral or jump into each-others throats – Because historically speaking, this isn’t looking good at all… Let’s see if they actually are right wingers, who love Europe and want it to prosper, or just russian muppets who want to destroy this project from the inside.

    History is conducting an exam on us.

  25. Blame the present political class, which even when the signs were pointing to it kept doing the same old bullshit.

  28. People always turn right wing in bad times. Cost of living is out of control and most european economies are stagnant. People are not happy. Considering the previous years were fairly liberal in many countries, it’s the right wingers who get to entice the people with radical promises and claims that they’ll “fix things”.

  29. I don’t particularly care if it goes right or left, as long as it keeps going forward.

  30. War, rampant immigration, weak leadership and a struggling economy = fertile ground for political extremism.

  31. No immigration, no economy, we need a constant influx of at least a million people per year to the EU if we want to keep up with China and India and the real estate bubble in Europe. If population reduced it will collapse real estate prices

  32. Wtf is going on in the comments? How is everyone cheering? You only have to look at the UK to see what these morons are able to do? The country is in the shitter and it still has a huge immigrant inflow. So they were even unable to deliver on the one thing, which is the source of all evil according to them.

  33. Oh well maybe everyone should have tried harder than ‘thats never going to happen to us’

  35. The EU has been a right wing institution since we can remember. The fact some of them like being called center is a different story.

  37. *Russian, Chinese-Inflitrated, corrupt and appeasing EU

    There’s nothing positively right-wing about it. It’s likely they won’t even solve the immigrant issue as per the promises a lot of their allies in their respective countries did, because uproar caused by illegal migrants benefits them and they’ll get voted-in again. And every few years they’re voted-in, they’re ruining education and causing more problems while GAINING more voters as they populistically lie their way into the parliament again and again until the entire thing is ready to be taken over by Sino-Russian interests.

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