Europe should be standing up to Trump and Putin – instead it is mirroring them | Alberto Alemanno
Europe should be standing up to Trump and Putin – instead it is mirroring them | Alberto Alemanno
Public opinion is clamouring for closer EU cooperation. The last thing we need is Ursula von der Leyen pandering to the far right, says Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet professor of EU law at HEC Paris
But then you would need to have actual solutions to problems and/or the will to do something for the citizens instead of for yourself and your rich buddies.
Lying, right-wing populism, propaganda and scape-goating is so much easier, not to speak about the fact how much more lucrative
corruption"lobbyism" is.People miss that giving away to the far-right will not satisfy them. No, the far-right doesn't stop until it reaches its goals of having authoritarian ethnostates. If we want to stop that, we can't make people complacent with it by introducing the reforms slowly. We have to steer them away.
One of my colleagues literally said he'd rather have a dictator in power than any other politician in my country. The brainwash and brainrot runs deep. This isn't even an older guy, he's mid 20s, and hoping for oppression.
Mostly, Europeans are highly masochistic in their self-criticism. Cool down: the continent is doing well.