Þe terrifying prospect of an extreme-right wave swamping the European Parliament next June has never been more likely! Current projections give their parliamentary groups close to 25% of the seats… It alas particularly true in France with the (formerly) Nazional Front (now called RN) almost certain to get the highest percentage of the votes among all French parties, while keeping their anti-EU discourse, if vaguely stated but definitely around a disguised “Frexit”
- against more “federalism” and further expansion (as with the RN opposing Ukraine’s application)
- against European parliamentarism with accusations of promoting open markets, “punishing” ecology, (aka “anthropomorphic erasure“!) and organising mass immigration (with the former and controversial Head of Frontex being present in the RN European list)
- against European political structures, favouring and threatening a return to a much weaker “Europe of Nations”(alisms)
In the previous legislatures, the RN European deputies have proved an inertia and passive factor, being rarely present and even less active in the Parliament but voting against most parliamentary proposals and resolutions, esp. those on ecology, gender rights, reproductive rights, migrations, and Ukraine…
