Last week people across the EU went to the polls to vote for their new representatives in the European Election. This is an important vote and gives us a reading on the feelings of people across, and how they feel about politics and the EU. In this video, we analyse the results, explain the groupings who won and lost and discuss what the results mean for the EU going forward.
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Showing posts with label Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF). Show all posts
18 December 2017
Al Jazeera: Europe far right hails Trump, slams EU, Islam, migrants
Far right leaders promised to build a new Europe without the EU, as they rallied against Islam and praised US President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy at a meeting in Prague over the weekend. [...]
"We do like diversity but I like the Dutch to be Dutch, the Czechs to be Czech, I like the French to be French and I like the Italians to be Italians."
Wilders, meanwhile, rejected Islam as "totalitarian ideology" and warned that the continent would be overrun by Muslims. [...]
"In the regional sense, the post-communist countries are particularly fragile and have always been, with the arrival with the now perceived danger from foreigners and Muslims," Jan Culik, a lecturer in Czech studies at the University of Glasgow, told Al Jazeera. "They have very little immunity to xenophobia and now the Czech Republic and Poland are among the worst in this regard.
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