Berlin is expressing doubt about the European Union’s ability to withstand the rise of nationalist parties and the pressure from the Trump administration. This unprecedented skepticism in Germany has raised fears of lasting weakening, or even the gradual marginalization, of Europe as it exists today.
This is very one-sided, impatient, pessimist and reductionist.
The EU survived the exit of the UK and it will survive a possible exit of France. What it will not survive is pessimist defeatism like this, especially among elected officials, but also in the populace.
EU was able to withstand CoViD; the addition of the war against the Ukraine fueled rapid changes energy and military infrastructure almost on a pan-European scale; united, the EU was able to negotiate against the aggressive US-American trade behaviour; currently it saves Greenland from US land grab, ensuring its right to secede.
This opinion piece doesn’t show its true colors, it wants all or nothing, as if things ever worked that way.
This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.
I Think it is the passe Thing to just start blaming the rigth of what to come, instead of just making Things better. No one will vote for the far rigth, if the guys at the top just do a good job and start focussing on the real issues here. Maybe stop all the survailance shit of EU citizens for startes.
That’s categorically untrue.
No matter how good your leadership is, the far right can literally exploit ANYTHING negative happening.
The 2007/08 market crash was purely down to the US fucking up their own markets and it rippled out of there - but the far right latched onto it and immediately blamed the EU and visa foreign workers.
The 2012-2015 immigration crisis was also thanks to the US (specifically their middle Eastern interventionalism), yet the far right managed to grab onto the issue and win serious ground with it - even though the situation was mostly well handled given the circumstances.
The one thing the (far) right does well is taking the truth and twisting it into hateful, fear-mongering rhetoric.
