Can Italy's Meloni Start an EU Break-Up? 

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Italian here, Meloni is becoming more and more pro EU, she has a good relationship with Ursula and Draghi too, quite unlikely that Italy will cause problems in the EU. Italy founded the EU with France and Germany.

I've already ordered 7 tons of popcorn for next year's EU elections and the US presidential elections 😂😂

We don't have in Poland burning cars, and attackers with knives

The afd has 22% currently.

Just for your info the Sweden democrats don’t wanna leave the EU (anymore) but do style themselves as EU critical or in other terms they don’t like Brussels. But they have changed their previous stance and are for remaining in the EU just limiting its control as much as possible.

There is literally nothing right wing about Meloni. Shes as right wing as Shapiro

I don't see why right wing = less integration. I can imagine someone with right wing ideas being for EU integration. Family values, less imigration, less restrictions (climate change) while also being paneuropean, believing in EU sovereignty, army, no borders etc.

As a Swede, I wish to make something a bit more clear regarding The Sweden Democrats (SD). Yes, they are a far-right party in a Swedish context, but in an international one? Eh... not quite. They've never advocated for a Swexit. They're not arguing for isolationism. They're not pushing sovereignty over Swedes in Finland or historically Swedish cities in Finland and even in Russia. And as far as I know, they don't have a stance regarding market protectionism vs free market competition. Sure, they are are the Swedish party that has been the most staunchly anti-immigration and anti-multicultural relative to the other Swedish parties, but saying that to an international audience is a bit misleading. It would be more accurate to say that they're pro-integrationist or assimilationist when it comes to those areas. They've consistently talked about responsible integration and not just dumping immigrants together into various suburban areas. Despite popular fear-mongering amongst more left-leaning Swedes, I can't find evidence that they particularly wish to deport people, and illegal immigrants are not even a talking point of theirs which is the type of imagery that an international audience expects when hearing that a party somewhere is "far right". The thing that makes them Far-Right in Sweden, are things that aren't even that political in other countries. Like advocating for Immigrants to have proficiency in using the language of the country, and joining NATO which was considered extreme because Sweden's decades of neutrality was basically a highly valued tradition for us and part Swedish styled patriotism.

As an italian who didn't vote for her,for the first and only time, she would never support leaving the EU.

“Far right” as if meloni isn’t a massive lib compared to literally anywhere pre ~1970 lol

Ah, yes. The good old calling EVERY political party that isn't left " far right ".

Wow, can we have definition of Far-Right party? And after that compare it with the actual politics of the Polish PiS party for the last 5yrs?

As a portuguese I have absolutely no issue with ukranian refugees, they are good people and hard workers, they also respect the culture and are also Christians. Non-eu refugees is what bothers me, here in Portugal they have absolutely no respect for our culture, authorities and citizens.

Meloni is not euroceptic.

I don't see why they'd want to. It'd crash their economies.

Yeah, Poland ruled by Morawiecki -- ex-banker, davos WEF attender and collegue of Harari is certainly a great example of "far-right" country.

The map at the start of the video claims that Slovakia's government is supported by at least one far-right party. Slovakia has a incumbent technocratic government, which has now governed around 3 months. It was appointed in June after the dismissal of the older caretaker government, which itself lost a non-confidence vote last December. There are no political parties involved in our current government. The previous government coalition, however, was supported by a party called Sme rodina (We are a family, in English), which could be viewed as a far-right party for some people, as some of the members do tend to have right-leaning views. Despite that, the party is more considered to be a "business party", meaning that it only serves to benefit the few top party individuals, like the leader and managment. Sme rodina's policies are were all over the place, from government funded subsidies and militarily supporting Ukraine, to anti-immigration and very mild Euroscepticism (more relevant in individual member, not the party as a whole). In this current election term, the Slovak parliament hosts 2 parties that are considered far-right, but they were never in government. As we are heading into an early election in late September, one of those parties has seen exit poll growth, whilst the other is heading into oblivion, as it doesn't even score 5% (the percentage quorum for a party to get into parliament). The first party, however, could potentially play a role in the creation of a future government after September.

The EU is a trade union first and foremost. This function it performs superbly that is why it will never fail.

I think that you are misunderstanding completely what is happening. No one wants the dissolution of eu. We are standing against ideologization of eu. We want european union as a purely economic alliance, not one that tells us to take immigrants and change our laws concerning justice system or ecology. This is the main reason in Poland, and I tgink in other countries as well. I find three reasons you proposed to be completely untrue (as a supporter of polist government at least).

A couple of points glossed over/not stated in the video: 1) the nature restoration laws in the Netherlands are nonsensical and cannot achieve the overtly stated goals of protecting the climate. The Dutch have the most advanced agrarian sector in the world, with the most productivity per emission. Reducing that will not reduce food consumption, it will only shift the production of this food to less advanced economies that will emit more for the same production. The same is true for the EU law, with the added wrinkle that the proposal at first did not pass in the relevant committee and led to the Commission throwing a hissy fit. Imagine that, unelected bureaucrats throwing a tantrum because elected officials represent the will of their constituents. 2) Poland is regularly at loggerheads with Brussels, not out of Euro skepticism, but because they do not want a centralized European super state. Their vision, as far as I can tell, is of a decentralized EU, with a common defense, foreign and trade policy. Poland is very much pro EU. Just not the EU as envisioned in Berlin and Paris. The same can be said for many of the "right wing" Euro skeptics.

I am from Italy and I would like to give my analysis: 1) The reason for the success of the Brothers of Italy party consists in the fact that for many years it has been in opposition and as such it has allowed itself to be able to criticize the governments in office and to speak to people's bellies, this is even more true if we consider the pandemic period that we have just passed in which the governments in office had to make very unpopular decisions and therefore this party took advantage of the wave of discontent. 2) Far-right movements in Italy have historically used these themes as their warhorse: A) Fight against immigration. B) Using Europe as a scapegoat for the country's problems. C) Fight against moderation. However, point A has shown its limits as immigration has not decreased since I have been in government and in general, in Italy, right-wing parties have fought immigration only with words, paradoxically the person who has sadly done the most to fight immigration is a minister of a left-wing government (Minniti) in which it was decided to finance the Libyan concentration camps; right-wing parties mostly seem to want to copy this tactic, but not realizing that in this way we are allowing ourselves to be blackmailed by North African governments who threaten to send us immigrants if we do not submit to their wishes. As far as point B is concerned, the anti-European theme has been greatly reduced, while once upon a time politicians spoke of leaving Europe and the Euro, after Brexit the narrative is simply that of reforming Europe. So I don't think there are many risks of an ITALEXIT. Point C is what, in my opinion, penalizes our country the most, the fight against modernity, for example they have just banned cultivated meat, with the excuse of wanting to defend the national food industry, but this will ensure that no Italian start-up will be able to hope to take this slice of the market and therefore we risk falling behind; another thing we can risk is the ban on autonomous driving, designed to defend taxi drivers (who already enjoy great privileges since the market is not free and taxi drivers' licenses are limited); to this we add the reluctance to want to encourage the use of cards to pay and the fact that tax evaders continue to be forgiven. Unfortunately, many Italians are convinced that the peak ever reached by us is the economic boom of the 70s and 90s and they want at all costs that things remain unchanged, with a great rejection of modernity. I remember when I was at school the school board fiercely opposed the teaching of computer science and English. Consider subjects that are useless, but which in reality today have proved to be extremely important. 3) Certainly an important factor is the crisis of the left (it seems to me similar to the rest of Europe), my opinion is that we live in a historical period in which it is much more difficult for the left to attract consensus, this because potential voters are much more divided than those on the right; if on the right it is possible to unite the movements around discourses such as security and/or low public spending; for the left it is more difficult since there is a left more nostalgic for communism supported above all by the elderly who once voted for the Italian Communist Party (the same ones who, among other things, are supporting Putin's Russia); then there is a left that instead tends to focus on degrowth and anti-modernity, then a Catholic one, then one close to LGBT issues and finally a left closer to liberal thought and modernity (and which most of all supports Ukraine) P.S: The Fratelli d'Italia party was born as an heir of the post-fascist MSI (Italian Social Movement) party, for now it seems to want to carry on a conservative line, but not exactly fascist; therefore trying to intercept more and more centrist votes, especially now that Berlusconi is dead and therefore his centre-right party is destined to disappear. I conclude by saying that I don't see a future in which we are outside Europe, my fear is that of a poorly governed nation and reluctant to any form of innovation.

Far right parties in the Romanian parliament? Right now Romania is ruled by a coalition of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL). To be fair PSD has some more traditionalistic takes on the social front sometimes (it was much more socially right wing 5yrs ago) and PNL never talks about social issues so I don't see who is far right

Isn't Meloni pro-European Union? Didn't she also say she was pro-European Confederacy? Whaaaaat?

Oh no guys the peasants caught up to us not giving 2 F’s about them - how could this have happened ?!! I love the EU, but hate the course it’s taken in the last years and the fact that it seems more akin to an oligarchy than an Institution that is there for the citizens of its member states. It’s good that politicians have fear (of being replaced and loosing their juicy salaries) again.

The video is great and helpful! However, the fact that eight EU countries have a far-right party in their governments is exaggerated. Recently, Slovakia's right-wing government lost a no-confidence vote and was replaced with a caretaker government. Also, currently, in both Bulgaria and Romania, there is an unstable government after the respective political crises. Neither Bulgaria's government (GERB-SDS - a centre-right conservative coalition and PP-DB - an anti-corruption liberal coalition) nor Romania's ruling National coalition (the centre-left and socially conservative PSD and the conservative-liberal PNL) includes parties with far-right policies. On the other hand, it is true that in both Parlaments sit strong nationalistic and right-wing populist parties, which cannot be underestimated.

Meloni is a EU/NATO plant, she won't break the Union 😂

No. Besides, PiS is not radically right-wing in Poland. This SP of Minister Ziobro is even more radical than the confederation

You totally need to define what you understand as 'far-right' before you start talking about stuff like this. If we stick to the left-right distinction as an economic one (which is the only universally applicable) most of those parties mentioned in the video are not even right wing. They're just conservative and anti-immigration, often with authoritarian tendencies.

The Italians aren’t as ignorant as people in England. They understand what the EU is and understand its value. Meloni is working well with the EU and is not picking pointless quarrels.

There is actually one factor that lead to lower quality of life: laissez-faire capitalism, whose ultimate demise was in 2008. After a crisis of this magnitude it's usually the moment when new ideas come to shake things up - like Keynesianism in 1929 and its own abandonment after the petrol crises of the 1970s. This time, nothing changed. Banks were bailed out and that's it; we kept on with the same trend of slowly but surely increasing benefits for the wealthy while taking away from the working class. Meloni - the most evil of them all, it seams - proposes a tenfold acceleration of this process by doubling down on the neoliberal agenda, all the why while taking particular pleasure in the suffering of minorities.

Don't worry, she's kneeled to Europe and Washington.

Austrian here. The FPÖ (our own far-right party) is currently really strong here. High inflation (despite it being here far lower than in Hungary), our government "violating" our neutrality (although no weapons have been sent to Ukraine), etc. If it continues like that, they may have a chance to win next year.

Most of us Italians are pro-european integration while only the right-wing party Lega Nord showing himself harsh Eurosceptic. I don't think Meloni will break the EU that much, I hope at least

"Far-right" carries too much of a stigma. It's really just the Right that cares about anything other than the economy.

Correction : Bulgaria doesn't have a far-right party which supports the government. Our far-right party "Vazrazhdane" is completely opposed to the current government.

I think I watched this episode already in WW2

Nice video but i personally feel like "far right" is not really the term to use. I think that some politicians nowadays call the opposition "far right", "nazis", "far left" or "communists" when in reality left or right they are all rather central. Also isn't cdu one of the biggest parties in germany (i thought it was the biggest but it wasn't included in the "politucal traffic light")?

This is pure speculation ! Nobody will exit EU after UK . Each of the Nations noticed what is going on if exiting EU !

Having lived, after leaving Italy at the age of 10, in foreign countries for 41 years, hence never voted during that time, and hence was not infected by party politics, thus on my return to my country of birth I felt it my duty to vote. Asking cousins and friends some advice, I was none the wiser, hence I made a list of objectives that a party should have to obtain my vote. I had listened to all parties without bias, and considered that My thoughts were around the center. At that time, none came near my list, until 25 years later I heard by chance a young lady that covered many of the points, thus followed her with an open mind, and actually wrote to her, year 2015, explaining what I liked AND also what I did not. I was thanked by return. I noticed that many were beginning to have similar views about her, and all considered her belonging to the right, and in spite of her affiliation when young, certainly not a Fascist. To term her far-right, is for me purely propaganda of the left, which has been unable to resolve anything for the country. It will not be easy for her either, with the mess she has inherited.

The basic problem with contemporary journalism is that it calls "far right" everything that would have been described as "perfectly normal" in 1950s or 1960s.

That is really very concerning topic! Thanks for the video!👍👍👍

Great job at explaining ! Also the image that Europe as a whole is losing ground at an international level is a "framework" cause of concern. Thank you for your work!

so glad I found your channel, keep up the good work!

love the great breakdown video

asylum seekers or economic immigrants, they are barely distinguishable today...for example why when we look at refugees from Ukraine we see only women and kids because men are banned to leave the country but when we look at the african and middle east "refugees" we see military age men only?

The EU's last chances are these conservative parties... They like to call it far-right, but it's still better to be far right than far wrong.

I hope we can solve all the issues within the EU I agree we should talk more about issues instead of just ignoring them and labeling people.

00:09 for Bulgaria that's currently false presented information.

she will sell italy to DOLLAR,in Svenditaly!

They are not fool enough. Thanks Great Britain.

Great video once again🇪🇺! I am really concerned about todays Spanish election🇪🇸🗳️, but I also think that the increase of the right-wing parties is due to issues that we haven’t taken good enough care of - Something I think specially Denmark and Austria has been pretty good at, compared to other European counties🇩🇰🇦🇹 Would also ask @The EU Made Simple; is it possible you can make polls so we can learn more about your subscribers📊? Example their ideology, age, European region (north, east, central, west, south)/ continent? - would be pretty cool to see who your subscribers are!🇪🇺🌍

That's the most annoying part about conversing with people on topics that have rational arguments for the other side. Yes, I don't think any rational party wants to argue with climate deniers, yet finding a balanced approach to topics related to viable dates for combustion engine bans, house heating changes etc is difficult. Same thing with asylum seekers / immigrants - we try to be empathetic, but at the same time, there's a level of tolerance for that empathy; even for those who are very (or even too) empathetic.

put mines around the beaches and no one will enter (or exit) by sea

10:38 Finally someone from the left acknowledges that these are indeed problems to be solve and not an illusionary fears of right wing, "neo nazist" parties. Very good and much needed video that covered the topic somewhat comprehensively.

Great video, it was very informative and (to my knowledge at least) not particularly biased in favour of any arguments

ngl EU made simple has propably become my biggest source of information, your content is entertaining and informative, and I really apprechiate the neutral nature of it. In german politics for example, there is rarely a source of information that doesn't either hate on the AfD (roghtfully so, but it still feels a bit wrong to read a professional neutral newspaper that literally insults a popular party) or glorify it as if it were the solution to all the problems people could possibly have.

Yeah the issue with "immigranton" is how to redistribute imigrants, and not the uncontrolled immigration itself. Don't take too many shortcuts with calling someone far right or trivialize complex issues. People want better quality of life and are no longer willing to share their wealth

I dislike how those parties are right wing in most social issues, but really weak on economics plans.

Please make a video on current fertility crisis and ageing of Europe. And ways to solve it, that's the root of our problems

"far right"

In europe and of course in Italy there are no more righi or left. All the political party, after the electrons, do the same policies decided in USA or UE

I am very glad you mention 2 issues that need to be treated seriously without labeling people "climate denier" or "racist". I don't mind that people immigrate through the front door and are properly vetted but we cannot sustain dealing with the many migrants who come to the EU illegally and I especially have disdain for those migrants who begin to commit serious crimes very soon after arriving and need to be jailed and then permanently deported. That does not make me racist! As for the climate, I am all for getting rid of pollution in a REASONABLE way. I say yes to getting rid of black smoke spewing trucks, busses and cars but I am not going to tell farmers to have less livestock. That is unreasonable to me because we need to eat (meat) and I am not interested in eating insects and stupid suggestions like that. Less livestock = higher food prices. I say no to that. Yes to reducing factory smoke and pollution and ramping up solar/hydro/wind power but no to forcing people off gas and coal before there is enough sustainable energy to replace it. It does not make sense to turn off older power plants and raise the energy prices before there are enough solar/hydro/wind systems to fill that demand. Reduce pollution but don't bankrupt people with high energy bills in the process!

Finally! A well balanced video, unlike the previous one. Its most important to talk about all of these issues without descending into culture war topics. One small correction I would make is about EPP. They are not being dragged towards the far-right, they are moving back to their center-right position after years of being steered towards the left. It was their absence that has left space for the actual far-right parties to attract center-right voters.

You do an invaluable job in educating the public about the role and the importance of the EU. I hope in the future you will be able to mostly rely on Patreon/donations. Thank you so much.

Having more than 50% of its exports going to eu countries it would be interesting to see what tariffs would do to the viability of Italian businesses if they chose to leave

Doesn't seem so to me. She's working with EU top politicians fine

Italy is such a huge beneficiary of EU funds that they are going nowhere. The same with Poland. Brexit has changed the game for the far right. Because no one wants a Brexit for themselves. So the far right is doing a "get more, do less" strategy instead. Edit: Italy is a beneficiary of the Covid fund. Normally they are a contributor to the EU budget.

Thing about Poland. The government uses very euro-sceptic rethoric, but its actions do not reflect it. The most resistance it's put up is on the judicial reforms, otherwise it usually gives in to EU demands. Heck, they even proposed adding membership into our Constitution once. There is a genuinly far-right party on the rise here - Confederation Liberty and Independence, polling at about 14%. They used to be Polexit, but as they entered the mainstream they became more vague on the issue. Their rise is owned to dissatisfaction with both the government and opposition parties and their criticism of irresposible social economic proposals. Although theirs might be worse, just in the other direction.

The Axis Trio making a comeback while also replacing Japan with Sweden

Initally I thought this was going to be another ultra-left youtube video essay, but no, it was actually very non-biased I felt, great video.

The only break-up she can start is their government cohalition!

I can’t speak for other countries, but in Italy Ms. Meloni’s party dropped its anti-EU rhetoric entirely. Hmm, what might have convinced them that it was a bad idea? Given the current swing of the political pendulum, I think Ms Meloni would be extremely glad of being in a strong EU should a center-right majority replace the current left-of-center majority in EU institutions after next year’s elections.

The way you closed the video deserves a like and a sub. These days people see everything as black or white. We can't just reject reason and critical thinking!

You are really ignorant of Italian situation. Better not to say anything, than to speak whitout knowing what you are saying! Slence is gold!

Dont worry...europeans arentw idiots...nothing will break EU.

For Sweden, the Sweden Democrats have gotten more and more popular due to not properly integrating the large amount of migrants Sweden has taken in since 2015. It’s something most parties here admit but since SD was saying it first and was badly treated by the mainstream parties, the voters go to them instead. Prob lots of other reasons but this is the general idea I’ve gotten from people here

Europeans saw a black man cross the street once & they still haven’t recovered from it

Has something changed that made you release the video now instead of when Meloni was just elected?

In Portugal we have CHEGA and is the third force right now

Oh, well Brexit showed how good decision was....:))

Unfortunately the Italian left completely dismiss any criticism and instead of trying to address those issues they are doing the literal exact opposite, they are against any agreement with north african countries and they refuse to renovate even the agreements that THEY did in the past...... Instead of addressing they are going the opposite direction, I voted them in the past, I am not going to vote them anymore.

they labeled everyone who is not liberal 'far right'

We need A.H. again. Germany has many Turks here and a guy like him would be the best choice

Hello, as a Portuguese I've been following your channel for a long time and I love it. Here in Portugal our Biggest "Far Right" party (I say that with quotations because it's not legally possible because our constitution) is Chega and they gained a lot of power, in 3 years they ended up becoming the 3rd biggest party here and it's still growing mainly because our internal economy is getting worse and because of immigration that got way out of control. It would be an interesting topic for a video if you could do the far right parties of every EU country

We stopped the far right in Spain in yesterday’s general elections💪

Romania doesn't have a national conservative party in their government

Germany never will leave EU

Italy and Germany are swinging right wing? I've seen this movie before.

Amazing video! Though there are a few reasons I’m optimistic that this right wing resurgence will be cut short and populism will cease to be a political force in Europe: •the populist rhetoric works best in times of crises and instability. If we look at the past decade, it just so happens that Europe has faced multiple crises one after another. But eventually, we’ll reach a period devoid of such crises and long term prosperity for the continent, when the far right will start losing support. •Brexit has been such a disaster that not even Meloni or La Pen want to leave the EU. If a populist party were to win in the 2000s, this would almost certainly mean that the country that elected it would want to leave the EU. Nowadays they just want to reform the EU in their own way. •like you mentioned, very few people actually agree with populist ideology. This means that once the larger, moderate parties reform themselves, the protest voters will start to return to the moderate parties, thereby crippling the right’s support and chances. Remember, this is just a phase the EU is going through. We’ll get through this together.

I imagine it to be a joy for China and the USA to see the EU fall apart.

0:28 'ultra-conservative' they are more like neofacist or neomedivalist, depends on how u view it

Those are normal right parties, not far right parties.

Excelent video. It is almost impossible to find someone who explains these issues well from a neutral point of view, and without falling into the reductionist thinking of "they are all fascists" or "they are all libtards".

add Netherlands to the list now!

Romania does not have a far-right wing party in their current gov. Get ur facts str8

Everything is "far right", but nothing is "far left"....

This would be absolutely horrible for the country..

Please do! Stop the corruption!

One of your best videos yet, mate! Fear the far right. Remember Brexit…