Corrections: 1) Turkey and Egypt RECOGNIZE Kosovo as an independent country. After further research I have noticed that my 15th source (see description) was wrong. Apologies and thanks Shaddyhacker in the comments for pointing it out. 2) The Sweden Democrats, who came 2nd in the last election, aren't a part of the Swedish government. They are providing parliamentary support for the government. Normally, the party with the most votes would be included in the government, but because of ideological differences the other parties did not want to give them a formal role in the governing coalition. (Thanks Jean-Claude and Kim Laursen from the comments)
Western Balkan Route, Serbia is surrounded by EU countries, immigrants come through Greece, Bulgaria or Romania to Serbia, and then they go towards Western Europe. Therefore Serbia has nothing to do with those migrants.
@@saccount-z3 Serbia is surrounded by EU members, those people from India, Tunisia, Burundi can't enter EU if your border police don't let them in. Serbia is not EU member and we will never be, your politicians treat us like slaves, always demanding this and that. US and almost all of the EU attacked us in 1999 without UNSC approval and bombed us with depleted uranium, hit our civilian trains and suburbs with missiles, and killed children in their houses. We don't owe no one a dime. West opened Pandora's box in 1999 when they took Kosovo and Metoxija from us and made a new state in Europe. Now EU reaps what has sown. Ukro Nazis killed Russian speaking people in DNR, LNR for 8 years. World turned the blind eye. Hypocrites. You helped Albanians make new state on our spiritual cradle, and what you got. Terror attacks committed on EU soil by Kosovo and Metoxija Albanians. So many Albanians went to ISIS to kill other people, Serbs never committed any teror attack or joined ISIS. Yet EU and West treat us like scums. We are Orthodox Christian nation and we have no need to put sanctions on Russia which defends Russia from NATO which surrounded Russia from all sides. Same NATO supports Nazis in Ukraine. Despicable and hypocritical EU politicians destroy EU and EU citizens with their moronic "leadership" They listen senile retard Byden which doesn't know what is left and what is right.20+ years of negotiations while EU received insanely corrupt Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania. EU is going down the drain with leadership you now have.
@@saccount-z3 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5SBo0akeDMY.html Nazism is sickness, and now Russia is is going to eradicate it in Ukraine.
Politics as a whole must change. Right populists seldomly offer workable solutions - aside from perhaps illegal immigration - but they do focus on real problems.
@@michaelkovacic2608 No, they don't. And they never will. Neither in migration nor do they focus on "real problem". The only thing right extremists offer is the hate they're spreading into society regarding queer rights, especially if queer people want to claim asylum. Do you think it is funny to be a queer refugee in Europe, let alone queer in those countries they're fleeing from? Why do you think are they often rejected by national governments? Because they are claimed to be "illegal" - not openly by right wing governments but often by moderate governments who want to please right extremists.
@@dariob9786 If a refugee is illegal - and this is regulated by law - then a government is obliged to deny asylum. It's as simple as that, whether you like it or not. Furthermore, your comment is just a perfect example of why people vote for right populists. You are probably completely ignorant of people being concerned about declining economies, rise in cost of living, low birth rates, huge influx of foreign peoples and the general uncertainty about our future. As long as you keep going like that, you shouldn't be surprised when people vote for populists - because they at least pretend to listen to them, if nothing else.
This video is really hugely important. Essentially, every European citizen should watch this. It is so tragic that not enough citizens know about what is going on around them.
It’s good in some ways. Although your heart goes out to perspective immigrants, things like assimilation and common religion or belief systems have to be sorted out. With this trend to its logical extreme, we can get rid of this war and countries can become more free to mind their own business, including a return to more canonical organization and less blood and deaths. A trade off of security for opinions temporarily. Let’s hope this reaps good rewards.
The EU makes it very easy for the populists. Migration is a real problem that needs to be dealt with QUICKLY. I know people who aren't even far-right, but they vote for populists because they simply want their countries to stay the way they are. Also, the current news about federalization will only lead to the populists gaining more votes. People are proud of their identities and don't want to lose more sovereignty to the EU. Countries such as Poland know that if Europe's power is centralized, they will be bullied by the bigger powers to apply policies that are harmful for them. EU needs to stop trying to become a singular entity like the US and accept that the situation here is different, and people won't accept this forced unification.
I really liked how you analyzed the causes and backed it with sources. Also, mentioning solutions is a nice touch. This kind of content is really good 😊! I hope we will see more content like this. Maybe one question to tackle is, why don't the migration/migrants succeed in Europe? Are the cultural differences so big or the problems that the EU citizens have, hit them harder or something else... Yes, something has to change as the destruction of EU will geopolitically destroy every country in it, as you mentioned at the end.
Thanks Ivan. This video took a lot of time but I am happy with the result. Your question is a good one. I think a lot of them do succeed. But we tend to focus on the ones that don't and break the rules. It is another interesting topic to look into.
You’ve made good points, this is why populism is here to save Europe, getting them elected is what will drive the reform for a new European Union, which the current establishment could not, or in my opinion won’t do.
My (very unimportant) thoughts on your video: 1) Missed to include Sweden in the first picture, by far even more right wing than the rest. Perhaps cause it doesn't fit the picture? 2) Meloni's speech that you show talks about stopping the Franco-German dominance over the EU sphere and protecting Italian interests, which have constantly been sold out for decades (by right and left parties) in favor of EU ones. Is that so unreasonable? 3) Households ARE worse off than 20 years. It's not a feeling, it's a fact, you could have shown the data of real salaries and growing divide between the 1% and the middle class 4) The social structure IS at risk. Look at the effects of immigration in Sweden. Crime rates have grown dramatically in the last decades, far more than the neighboring Scandinavian countries, which have accepted far less immigrants. 5) Is reduction of globalization a bad thing? Most countries are starting to bring back production in the home country, including US and Japan from China after the chain breakdown, and they are not right wing countries. Globalization has enriched the rich and made the middle class poorer. 6) Australia (non right wing) has been checking on immigration since forever. Why it's ok if they do, but not the rest? Why we need to accept everyone that wants to move in EU? Why is it a dangerous question to ask, and you get called fascists (which means dictatorship)? Why no help has been given to Italy and Hungary over the immigration management, with no redistribution? Aren't we supposed to help each other? Why IT-HU need to help immigrants, but rest of EU doesn't need to help IT-HU? 7) Why do we all NEED to be the same? Why is it so bad that our cultures differ?
2) French politicians often claims to ve f*cked by EU and German ones as well. It is hard to distinguish what was part of a bigger deal and what is actually unjust. Italy benefited greatly from EU and ECB policies, mainly about debt. Think this way : the netherlands and other northern are complaining that southern EU countries have been manipulating their way around the institutions to actually steal their wealth. It's simply human : we see the wrong we perceive as done to us by other so much more than the benefits or the wrong we cause. The british have given us ample examples as to why actually the economic union is a good idea. They immediately regretted Brexit.
3) They might be worse off in term of housing and inflation, but think of how much the world has changed since ? Smartphones, internet, TV, etc. Everything is different. The development of the device you're watching this on implied a major shift in economics and yes, EU citizens have pretty much missed that train, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't have been done. In any case I don't really think completely independent national states would have protected us better.
5) Globalization is an aggregate of individual choices, it has not worked toward any goal, it is not a single-minded entity. It has brought more centrally distributed wealth yes, but the EU has not impeded redistribution of it in any way. Also reduction in globalization might not mean low-paying industrial jobs would come back. It can simply mean less stuff for an equal amount of people.
Praying for the downfall of the European union every day 🙏. I like how right wing populism is immediately considered bad . More than 30% of prisoners in Greece are non greek migrants. Guess the department of immigration is lying as well ( it's actually more than 30% ). I also like this cute " European citizen " idea but it's not inclusive enough. Let's try citizen of the world , citizen of the solar system or even citizen of the observable universe. In this beautiful European union of the future there is no place for outdated ideas like nuclear family , tradition and faith , national identity. We even got the French and Germans on the same side , we can't lose!
Populist are always good at pointing to the problem, but not so good in finding solutions. Once they'r in power, they get stuck .So they forget the promises, the infighting starts and within a few years they are plagued by one scandal after another.
The illegal immigrants who doesn’t wants to adopt European culture doesn’t have any right to be in Europe. Europe only have to take immigrants who respects European values.
Ironically the countries that shout the loudest about European values are the ones who follow them the least. Prime example Germany, they always oppose initiatives that undermine their national interests (margins in the economy and political power) even if they're good for Europe as a collective.
Exactly Italy was the one that ideated the Union. Italy is the one with European principles in its constitution and Italy is the one that was abbandoned to immigration.
@@Boretheory how has Italy abandoned immigration? And is Italy the only one with ""european principles"" in its constitution? Is the constitution of Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden lacking ""european principles""? And which are these ""european principles"" exactly?
@@tomorrowneverdies567 There are no European principles, but what this type of langauge refers to is usually the principles of post war liberalism. Like freedom of speech, equality, liberty, you know the same old vague but nice sounding platitudes.
@@sebe2255 yes. Not that these are unimportant. I might also add solidarity with fellow humans, and humanism in general, animal welfare, environmentalism, division of power, independence of the press/news agencies, rule of law, respecting fundamental human rights, certain labor regulations and others that I do not recall right now.
Good video. I agree with them on most points, but the EU institutions are also making it very easy for the populists. The EU is no longer perceived as a meaningful or even helpful institution, but as a molloch for autocrats who are completely decoupled from ordinary citizens. Incomprehensible conditions are decided that completely ignore the realities of the people. Lobbying continues to stoke maximum distrust and the practically felt powerlessness. Practically every person in the EU knows a story where the EU institutions look bad at best. A Commission President that no citizen has ever been asked about, and so it goes on and on. Issues that are important to EU citizens are negotiated behind closed doors and the worst possible solution for the citizen is taken with 100% certainty. If you want to seriously counter populists, you have to make politics for the citizens and not for companies and lobby groups.
@@Hardcore_Remixer Yes, how should I put it, populists hit the right spot on some points (populism is not always bad, it can even promote good things). In most cases, however, they serve their own cause and not the citizens and that is the crux of the matter. Unfortunately, the problem we have is that the Democrats are making things far too slow, far too complicated, and far too convoluted. This is grist for the mill of the populists and they explain complicated and difficult issues with simple words. Unfortunately, it is not particularly popular to explain why what is being done (unfortunately also as a result of political entanglements). The question that arises from this is what should a Democrat do? The answer is to explain, be honest and authentic. I can't say more about it.
The EU, and a lot of western governments, basically act as detached mega-corporations who'se primary concern is to expand the labour market at all costs. I mean half of the EU's countries and most of the EU's institutions actively undermine European integration by supporting and endless stream of immigration, many of which are from countries that don't give a shit about Europe and who don't assimilate at all
in defence of Italy and their new "fascist" government: Italians have the right to be angry and demand a change, their life is way worse than it was 40-50 years ago, the economy was better, the society was more united. They have the right to blame the EU policies for that.
Did the EU force Italy to take so much debt? Did the EU force italian companies to relocate production in countries with much less labor costs? That were all mistakes made by the italian government.
@@splitter129 yes, have you once taken the energy to look at the debts of these countries? Please check the Debt to GDP ratio. The reason why these countries are all in debt is because they dont have an independent finance system. They cannot devalue their own currency, nor can they adjust prices , because everything is determined by the European Central Bank. This is why, if there is a global crisis, Germany bails out everyone. Once the Euro falls, which itt will do eventually, the EU zone countries will face unprecedented inflation and impoverishment.
@@gergelyzoltan8422 yes, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece have a high debt to GDP ratio, and maybe France but countries like Germany, Netherlands, Austria are fine. If the Euro is the problem of those countries, they should leave it.
8:39 - This will never work out, you know why? Because the moment you have a different opinion than France and Germany, you become a right wing populist. How can you feel a part of a larger community if you views are being portrayed as if Joseph Goebbels stated them himself? And this is the true reason why people vote for euro-sceptic parties. It turned out that Hungary and Poland was right on the migration issue, even you stated in the video that migration must be restricted by a number of measures, yet you keep portraying them as the problem. Why are they the problem if they were right after all? Maybe if EU would not proceed with open-door migration politics (pushed through by France and Germany) maybe right now there would be no right-wing parties in Spain, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden. Maybe the cohesion of the EU would be kept. From my point of view the rise of right-wing (not necessary populist) is caused by stupid policy of the far-left parties who govern EU, mainly France and Germany. Not only their immigration policy was a fail but also their decision-making that resulted in EU being addicted to Russian resources despite multiple warnings from the "far-right populists". Yet they still paint themselves as the ones that are right and so does your video. Maybe there would be no rise of right-wing parties in Europe if we would be never addicted to Russian resources in first place. This is your problem, you stick a label "far-right populist" on everything that dares to challenge the mainstream far-left narrative and forget about issues that those parties bring up to the table. Then once the crisis erupts, those parties say "I told you" and they gain new voters. It's that simple. If the current course of action will continue, the EU will fall apart, not because of the "far-right populists" but because of the current leftists elites that fail to address obvious problems and challenges.
This is main problem of EU - Germany have too much power. Why this is problem? Because Germany can't talk with other countries. They respect only USA and China, and USA here is only because USA have dirty material on Germans. Example? Polish - German relations. When PO was in power (2007-2015), then PO was seen in Poland as a party doing exactly what Germany wanted. When PiS is in power (2015-2023), then Germany is attacking goverment quite often. If Germany would try better relations with Poland, then PiS wouldn't be in power in the first place (PiS use a lot "anty germany" statments). And why it's important? Because Poland is in top 5 of German economic partners. Like if Germany can't respect so important neightbour, then it's not surprising that Germany can't "rule" EU properly
when you have a crappy government you do not abolish government, you change it. Likewise we should change the EU not scrap it. Together Europe is a superpower, we will not get anywhere if we are fractured into small nations
Yes! You get it. As an American I see the world as tri polar. There is the USA, there is China and there is the European Union. ( Russia wishes it was a super power but let’s be honest, Russia is barely even maintaining its standing as a regional power) And honestly even though I am American, the ones I’m rooting for in this tripolar world are you guys. You seem more committed to democracy than we are. I hope I’m not proven wrong. Split up and bickering with each other will not serve Europe. The time period where each European country was a world super power was about a century ago. You need each other if you are going to compete on the world stage. It is better to have some voice in a federation of somewhat equals then have no voice as a client state to China or the United States.
@@josephp.1919 adding my voice as an American to this, I agree on pretty much every single point you made. EU-wide integration would also benefit you all on more levels such as business and transport + logistics. Here's to hoping for EU Federalization soon.
@@josephp.1919 The only problem is some nations wanting to keep supremacy, like France supressing to some extent Spain and Portugal. Likewise the lack of digitial infrastrocture and tech companies, wich will most likely change
I don't like the EU because I like the many European cultures we have in Europe and they are destroying that by merging everyone together and letting in immigrants that are not European.
"Andrzej Duda in power" - lolololol, dude, at least do some research how the political system in EU works, Polish president is almost entirely a representative function, he has no practical power whatsoever except the ability to pardon ppl and and veto a bill that can be overriden anyway. Although I've gotta give huge thumbs up for properly identifying the reason why people vote for PiS in Poland - it's mostly due to economical reasons. A lot of stupid left-wing newspapers try to portray Poles as "racist conservatives" and "nationalistic bigots" while 90% doesn't care and just votes for pro-family social benefits. Economic elitism is what's killing EU and it needs to stop. Too many politicians in Brussels are disconnected from the populus and vote on bullshit laws that scare voters away from United Europe. For example, the last ban on non-electric cars that was introduced scared the shit out of the people in Poland, because they're afraid that "the elites want to take away their ability to purchase an affordable car".
I'm a middle age pole. When I was young I believed that EU is good and have the best Interest of Poland. Young people are naive. Now my way of thinking completely changed. 1. I hate how EU is trying to force LGBT ideology into schools - I don't want my children to end up homosexual and me getting old without grandchildren. 2. I hate bureaucracy and bureaucrats. Poland already has a problem with overblown bureaucracy. EU has the same problem. When there is new office created there is no way to close it. Bureaucrats will pretend they do something even if it doesn't have any meaning. Do I really need to support another herd of those free feeders in Brussels. 3. I hate a model where there are high taxes and the founds are redistributed by the government/EU. Bureaucrats tend to waste public money. True life example - I read about funding of IT Projects out of 10 project that took EU money only one was somewhat successful and 9 were a total failure. Private investor wouldn't waste money like that. 4. I think that EU is corrupted - Former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk was a President of the European Council. Donald Tusks son Michał Tusk worked for OLT Express company owned by Pyramid Scheme company Amber Gold that scammed 18,000 people for around 851,000,000 zł. OLT Express was an Airlines company used to launder money. Also OLT was selling tickets at price that is not sustainable just to put another Polish company LOT out of bussines. LOT was to be sold to German Airlines Lufthansa. Prime minister at the time Donald tusk aggrade that Smolensk air disaster. Where the Polish President and many politicians died. Should be investigated by Russians first, not by Poland. Politicians on plane were anti-Russian, pro-US and in opposition to Donald. It is unknown, if it was a disaster or planned execution. Russian destroyed plane wreckage, so it can't be investigated. Pols know the best you can't trust Russians. If a person like Donald Tusk gets such a high position in EU bureaucracy machine I'm afraid to know what other politicians in EU have behind ears. 5. I hate how EU is trying constantly to get more control over member states - Constant play around lack of Rule of Law in Poland is getting boring. Many EU states had disputes with EU over how much control EU gets and It was never so vocal. EU is just using some abstract reason to withhold founds. Polish government have the right to change juddery system as they see fit. They were chosen in democratic elections and represent will of polish people. Polish people know well how it is to be subject to foreign power ! 6. Lack of respect for views different than what Brussels orders - as we see in video above. Different views are not always bad. If a democratic country picks right-wing, so be it. If they pick left-wing, that is also ok in my opinion. Suppressing democracy elected governments just because they are not left-wing is definitely not democratic. Stay open minded and think for yourself.
@@jakubzov I accept homosexual people, but I'm not supportive of pushing this un-natural ideology into schools. Children should be though naturel order of things, not some strange ideology ! Look from perspective of country/EU - You want to have families with one man and one woman as nature made people. Families that have children and provide healthy environment for them. Not some strange homosexual that are unlikely to have children. Most European countries already have a problem with growth. LGBT just makes the issue worst. If my children turn up homosexual I would accept it, but consider it a parenting failure. I definitely don't want education system pushing them into it !
Europe is just a continent each europe country have his own history culture and traditions there is no homogeneous european people so unite them into one flag is a non-sense the EU was a good idea but it failed and I dont think EU mistakes will be mended no because certain countries who are the lords of the EU are very confortable with the status quo so there is no other choice but destroy this mistaken project
@@Albanian_History yeah Illegal immigration It's not good As a Tunisian north African I can understand you because of the bad politics and hard economic situation Unfortunately, most of our youth want to take risks and throw themselves into death boats, crossing the Mediterranean to reach the Italian Lampedusa, and the desire to live in Europe for the past few months only, through more than 20 thousand illegally. The situation is out of the control of our government and most of the young people are trying to emigrate. it's so sad
@@malekaltayari3936 it is. I just want everyone to live in their own peoples countrys like - asia for Asians,europe for Europeans. They can come for vacation but not be citizens and yeah!
Swede here, I voted right wing this time mainly cuz our most eu friendly party is in that block aaand also because our left wing is literally awful. Not the left wing politics but their way of handling things.
I changed to right too, I don't want a future where western Europe are multi culture states. I want Europe with his western culture like east Europe have his. Why all western states have to change in multi culture states? No! We are white states, with a beautiful culture.
@@neapelflorenz4364 yes but the scandinavian, other germanic, and slavic states are blond and (very) white states with northern culture, while mediterranean states are black haired and less white states, with a southern (mediterranean) culture. So maybe ban immigration from southern to northern Europe as well? Greetings from Greece ;)
I do not understand how right wing parties can really solve problems: they do not want to ban immigration from the south to the north, just reduce it, and they do not give any better solutions to the problem in which people do not make enough children (at least 2.1 on average) to maintain the population stable. These are the reasons why I would never vote for right wing parties (and no party in general, since all parties belong to the same greater party in secret). Greetings from Greece.
As a Ukrainian, I have no idea why people vote for populists. Our government was always controlled by this kind of politics. And this is one of the reasons why Ukraine is still poor. They always yell about problems but don't have any good solutions. I don't know maybe populists from the EU are a bit different than ours...
people feel that theyre not being listened to. Especially when it comes to migration where they see people that reject our societies get preferential treatments, paid for by their taxes.
Although some of their migration politics sound good, they seldom change a lot in the grand scheme of things, mostly because they are just as corrupt as everyone else. However, voting for populists is for many people the only way to show the ruling elite the middle finger. I believe that many people are aware that not much will change, but vote for them nevertheless to vent their anger and due to the feeling that it can't get much worse anyway.
I am 100% pro-EU, but my village's butcher shop doesn't sell pork anymore. This is rural France we are talking about. This is unsufferable. I really am distraught. How can a democracy function if larger and larger fractions of it serve foreign ideologies, interests and are just so plain dumb as to believe an invisible man really really does not want them to eat pigs ? This shook all the belief of fraternity I had. If this continues, I might abstain the next time they ask me to choose between far-right and the status quo. I see myself less and less as a french citizen and more and more as an aborigene in a new nation, more akin to an american republic than a european country.
These people just want freedom. They want an economic and trade union, not a political union. These people don't need an other parliament to tell them what to do. They just want to make money together, nothing more, nothing less. It is not that hard to understand.
Yeah, buts that's dead. Instead of some halfway solution that will make the EU a chinese puppet or remain a US puppet as it has been for the last 80 years. The eu countries should come together and make a European federation. Which will properly solve problems and will make the EU powerful
A parliament which regular people can't vote btw. The EU is one of the most tyrannical governments in the world now. No regular citizens wanted them but still, these technocrats have huge amount of power, and it's unchecked...
There are certain points that are totally criticable. For example agricultural quotas. Spain have its production limited but then the European Union import agricultural products from Morocco
I turned 18 this year and I’ll vote for right-wing populists until extra-european immigration is completely stopped. Then I may consider voting for center or left-wing parties
Democracy is the will of the people. Just because it's not your will doesn't mean it isn't democratic. I'll never understand why people believe that things need to change... yet vote for the status quo?
@@frederikswitten8683 EU was the thing literally only funding Russia's economy 90% of Russia's gas goes to Europe, mostly powerful EU economies, and 40% of Russia's GDP is made out of their natural gas dominance
I do not agree with you. In my opinion, the EU's main problem is its lack of understanding of active regional debate. For example, it is easy to say that Poles are conservatives who hate immigrants and this is how PIS won. But it is false. Actually, Poles voted for anti-nationalists for over 20 years and it was not a problem, but our Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, declares what should be done and did the opposite. For example, he said he would lower vat but actually did raise it, saying it was only for a year. But after a year it stayed that way. People found his old statements in which he explains why he is a demosceptic and his visions of rulling elite and the rightness of using force against the masses. After all, the high-profile scandal with leading government officials who described our country as a "cardboard state", the Foreign Minister described our policy after 8 years of demands as "doing **** to America". The majority called for elections. But the PO quickly declared the admission of migrants to Poland and quickly chose judges to the tribunal. Despite significant opposition from the majority who demanded that it be waited until the next elections. People were voting on PIS not against immigration but against Tusk (other party witch was even more aganst imigrants had 4.76% and did't pass election threshold). So how did the eu react to all of this? Elected Tusk as President of the European Council and began demanding his promises when his support was 15%, calling it "defending democracy". All propaganda was launched, showing some extreme movements with the support counted in the hundreds as the average Pole.
Though I am not a EU-critic from the right, I think you addressed some of the major issues right-wing populists benefit from. At the same time, it should be clear to everyone that not all people can be convinced of the EU's benefits. Like with any other topic, we have to work with the fact that people think differently about issues. Improving democracy within the EU should be the most important concern. Otherwise, people who are unhappy with how the EU is run have few other options left - than voting, sadly, right-wing populists to express their own views on the topic.
Making the eu more democratic would take national sovereignity away from the member countries and these agitators would benefit of it again, because stupid people believe them
If only 3 EU countries Italy, Poland and Hungary have what you call right wing governments don't you see the problem with this? The question is why only 3 EU countries? Is it because EU is dominated and controlled by left side of EU politics and do you really want EU to become Union of European Socialist Republics like old USSR used to be. Where's diversity here? Diversity and tolerance should also apply to politics and people with traditional values not only to migrants and LGBT groups.
I beg to differ. Right Wing Populism will bring Europe closer together & united. An Alt Right European First movement is exactly what Europe needs to thrive again. Kick the Americans & English out of Europe altogether! Resume ties with Russia, dissolve NATO and create an all European Military Force. Europe for Europeans, a renewed Social Christian Europe with European values, respectful of all of Europe's cultural heritage protected.
This is probably the single most objective video on this topic I've seen. Sadly, people have developed a tendency nowadays to ridicule the opinion of others if it doesn't fit the own vision, and to downplay or outright deny any problems. Left parties frequently deny that illegal immigration is a problem at all, while right parties do the same on climate change. Yet any objective person will see that not only are both a real threat, they are also partly interlinked.
Agreed. Immigration is a threat and also ignores the reason why birth rates are declining. I agree that people on the right need to stop ignoring climate change. However some of the things politicians propose seem was to ridiculous or impractical. Take European nations trying to go towards EVs. They ignore the fact these materials cause awful environmental damage in nations they are dug from. They refuse to mine the few deposits on Europe. It shows the hypocrisy. These nations will fund the destruction of the environment in other nations as long as they can grand stand on being environmental friendly. Ignoring the process of how they got it.
We didn’t develop this tendencies nowadays, it’s just human nature. We aren’t inclined to be logical, we must actively try to be. Like it was worse back then, “if you elect Thomas Jefferson, incest and rape will ravage the streets, people with be hanged blah blah blah”-my point is politics is much more fair today and better (it’s just that it CAN be better and more effective.)
@@odst2247 it's not just human nature, media shapes the discourse and people now are at their most polarised in a loooong time. Participation of masses in politics is in general a historically novel thing, parliaments which are voted in by the people and not the nobility are also new, not to say about women's rights to vote and even fucking own property. So the influence of human nature you are implying here is not as important. Human psyche is maluable and the only thing I can agree with you on is that the populists use psychological tricks like fearmongering in order to mobilize support. Doesn't mean that everything they are mongering the fear about is true
Climate change is natural. Paying weirdos in africa to hustle people to put them on rubber boats to replace a countries population is not really natural.
Duda is actually quite moderate. President in Poland has limited power, it's not a presidential system but mixed. In practice that means the government de facto rules, it's the executive power, parliament is legislative, but... each and every bill has to be approved by president which gives him de facto a veto power. Last time I've checked Duda used his power 11 times, sometimes in very crucial and controversial cases moderating the "populist" government and parliament majority.
Sovereignty is linked to the human dimension of peoples attached to their land. Legitimacy is the history of the nation states. Sovereignty is not "extremism." Replacing the State constitution (Peoples history) with the rule of order (international trade law) is extremism. Human being is not a merchandise. You cannot put free movement of people at the level of free movement of marchandise and capital. This is insane !!
But it's true that people in the EU are getting increasingly away from their national identity, values and way of life. It's everywhere to see, and the EU unfortunately is the main one to blame.
At the end you made a little mistake "without the eu how can we tackle the energy crisis" maybe by removing eu legistlation that limits how much energy my home country can produce
You totally miss the point of right wing argument. They want to economic and trade union not political union. Polish, hugarian, italian etc. don't need another parliament to say them what to do. They just want to make money together, nothing more, nothing less.
Do Poland and Hungary only want a trade union, or do they want to cherry-pick? They are the biggest nett receivers in the EU. Are they prepared to give that up for the sake of political independence?
I think that's entirely correct to say that the EU must address underlying issues. This shift in votes is the result of people reacting to the forces acting on their lives. The EU has largely failed to recognize those forces. If it can't demonstrate the capacity to hear and address the struggles or concerns of it's people, it can't demonstrate that it should continue to exist.
Have you asked to your self "why"? No because you're a brainwashed ignorant, you're a "useful stupid" for the EU oligarchs. They have trained you well, if something is not good according to your EU masters it must be "crazy right-wing fascism"
Very good job at giving an educated description of the situation, but not less important, practical solutions to the problems that make populist parties rise in Europe. You are doing a great job, I hope your channel will grow!
@@evo8power228 I think the right wing economic approach that has dominated the world since at least the 1990s is the root of most of our problems right now (together with imperialism and authoritarian regimes). So I disagree. This channel however I wish would grow.
I think the key is in addressing "globalism". As I see it the international free markets lack the needed regulation. This leads to job loss in the EU while companies can save costs through slave work and in lax environmental regulations in developing nations. This is a lose-lose situation for the people in all nations involved, yet it's an economic gain for the companies. Addressing this by stricter international regulations and more local production is the key.
@@jakubzov I agree you can't go full isolasionist, nor would I wish that. But human and environmental rights must be of highest priority in trade. It must not be economically beneficial to import goods that are cheaper because of lax environmental regulations or lacking workers rights.
Could you explain me term "right wing populism"? Is that by chance everyone who is nor left wing liberal. Or maybe its everyone opposed to neo-colonial attitude of Germany, France followed by cosmopolitan neo aristocracy established in Brussels?
France accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees from Middle East Arabian countries. Soon the French people may seek refuge in Hungary or Poland. Same here in Germany. Thousands of German people are now being forced to flee their own country. They are taking shelter outside their own country.
great videos!!! i was searching for some info material like that for a long time. you made it congrats and well done. there is so much misinformation about the EU. not only from the populists. it would be great to have a video about areas which are EU competence, those who are national competence and those where there is a mix and what that exactly means... just an idea because very often people complain about EU on topics which are not EU competence.
Just a small critical statement: I don't like the expression "right-wing populist". I think that simply "Populist" would be enough. There is today a tendency to believe that pro European attitude is rather located on the left, and that the conservatives are rather eurosceptics. Which is not true! You find radical left populists like Sarah Wagenknecht, who are also eurosceptics. In fact the founding fathers of Europe were from all over the political spectrum. Christians like Adenauer and Jean Money, we're highly involved. In the 80's and the 90's the the traditionally rather center left main press in Germany was very critical towards the European Union.
Interesting video although I don’t agree in part that countries do not lose their power. EU which was setup as a trade union, now turned into political machine which gradually takes away the power from the countries to Brussels just name a few of the recent ones - local regulations for refugees/asylums; nitrogen rules; misalignment of juridical system with the EU etc. Proposed solution to fight misinformation about the EU and it’s benefits would look like just propaganda without tackling all people’s concerns, improving welfare EU citizens.
What you say just highlights that people within the EU still want their countries, laws and traditions to remain as they are. What is so 'right wing populist' about that? Why is that termed far right ??? To me, you come across as a patronising liberal. Until Brussels stops its antics of wanting Europe to be one big federalist state then what you describe as' populism' , a word which is very dismissive of people wanting to protect their national identity, is going to be an increasingly awkward problem for the EU to address - if it ever manages to do so. The EU in Brussels needs to show respect to the nation state !!!
As a Swiss, it was a very interesting video, and your analyses are mostly excellent. you really also take the right wingers points and discuss them rather than just to ridicule them - the mistake of most center-right or -left parties, cos the concerns - like migration, sovereignty etc. really do exist among the grassroot people. and you are right, the center parties - both c.-left and c.-right, NEED to address them. another point, which somehow not came through in your video, is the anonimous votes for important decisions - it should rather be like a qualified majority, like e.g. 66.6 % or so, but that is impossible to implement. and the other one is the Directive on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States]EU in German Unionsbürgerrichtlinie. there are many still rather developing nations that are quite big in terms of population, and for a small country like Switzerland, this could simply not be handled.
It is possible that the illegal immigration will eventually break up the EU with the following countries leaving it: Holland, France, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Germany, and others because the trend of the voters seems to vote for the political parties that are against illegal immigration. If the EU cannot fix the problem, then most likely many countries will fix the problem themselves and not let the EU decide or tell them what they can and cannot do.
As an Italian, her party LITERALLY comes from the MSI, which was a self declared neo fascist party. And its filled with fascists, like La Russa (who literally had Mussolini's little statues at home) I'm not saying the government is fascist, I'm just saying they are still tied to it
conservatives haven't conserved anything whether that be in USA, CAN, AUS or EU, they are pathetic and worse they are completely useless and belong to the dustbin of history
@@juricakovac5667 I am a conservative person and hundreds of millions of others around the world. All world's civilizations are built on traditions over millennia. The only things that leftists created is communism like in Soviet block or national socialism like NSDAP in Nazi Germany. Now leftists trying to implement another destructive ideology neo-marxism across EU countries by attacking everyone who believes in traditional family and conservative christian values, the foundations of european culture.
Here's an Italian. There are several reasons why my people voted for Meloni despite her party's blatant support of far-right policies. 1) Fear of globalization. The elderly as well as the uneducated youth are aware they will never be able to cope with the fact Italy is no longer a regional power. Exposing themselves to foreign culture is being perceived as passive treachery. On the contrary, any form of cultural resistance is openly supported and Meloni is the last of a row of social justice champions who are good at preaching but awful at ruling a nation. 2) Misinformation and history revisionism. Mussolini remained popular in some circles because of the "so bad, it was better" mentality which every unsuccessful democratically elected government ended up reinforcing over the second half of the 20th century. The juridical system doesn't work properly? Blast democracy, Mussolini sent to jail every suspect criminals without wasting any time with any trials (it may take even 10 years for somebody to be sentenced). Is our language being poisoned by English loanwords? Under Mussolini everybody spoke perfect Italian (which is nonsense, Standard Italian became dominant after WW2). 3) Christianity as a cultural pride. Don't be surprised if neo-fascists and religious fundamentalists are getting along. They both despise any deviation from Christian dogma and liberalism is seen as a submission to lavishness and a sign of weakness of the soul. Not to mention the Church often provides small communities the same social welfare which is provided by the State after years of waiting. Again, this is the result of over 60 governments entering and exiting both Houses of the Parlament without giving a fuck to their electors. 4) Fear of going extinct. Under the logic of neo-fascists, losing one's sexual freedom to choose your partner is better than seeing your population getting smaller and smaller to the point of standing upon on the brink of extinction. That's also why LGBTQ+ people are their favorite target: they aren't just promoting what fundamentalists perceive as an act against nature, but their sterility (as if adoptions weren't a thing) is also putting the future of their country in jeopardy. How do I know all this stuff, you may ask? I was bullied at school by schoomates who were being raised with this mindset. Of course, my teachers never batted an eye on this matter because they were also secretly in favour of reintroducing authoritarian policies to discipline the youth. Good thing I never gave in.
@@zenyatta3560 The irony of your remark is that I'm a fellow expat, but soon I'll return to my family to take some rest after three years of MA (courtesy of the Covid 19 pandemic and the events in Ukraine).
point no 3 : its much better than "accepting" a new one and slowly the "new one" erasing what is the original identities of Italy, they are bizillion of times worse than the original 💁 i think you know what im saying
It's actually JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI, not Andrej Duda Edit: the best way for the EU to reduce illegal immigration is to simply start an international propaganda campaign which says, 'the EU is piss poor, Sub-Saharan Africa is super rich' and gaslight people into believing that they are better off in Africa That's the most effective way
Thankfully, the centrist coalition won with 63% of the 2024 vote, and the rightist parties got less than 30% of the vote. As long as the people of the EU are ≥ 2:1 against the right, I believe things will be ok.
Nice content, I changed from left wing to the right wing. I don't like so much immigration, specially muslim immigration. I don't see it fits well. And I don't like the rebuild of the culture identifications. So u are right, that's the 2 biggest topics. There is no left wing who have a ear for my thoughts, they just want to blame me for that. So I am just hope the right wing will get more stronger and successful. The left wing will have immigration every year, every year and the people are getting less and less own children. The right wing will concentrate on the family and stop immigration. So I can just tell all people when u love your country go the right way and left left behind you.
Good content! Current situation is very concerning: competitiveness lagging behind due to a not well-thought green transition, focus on war and not on peace, imposing uncontrolled and Illegal immigration which, as seen in other places, increases criminality, abuses of social support, tension, violence and become a national security issue. In short, EU leaders are transforming its member states into poorer and unsecure countries (you can research the stats), because they are playng with the future of EU citizens The results of their policies and diplomatic work translates into a highly uncertaint state for further development within an emerging multipolar world. It is very difficult to improve people's participation in EU elections, if the election results are not fully respected and top jobs are not transparently and merit-based nominated. In this confusing time, supporting family and christian values, and caring for peace and your country are the righ thing to do. By the way, if people vote more for the far-right parties because they address their major concerns, why is it perceived as a problem to be fix? This is democracy working. EU leaders should interpret the message and adjust course.
Well, how could that be. Stop the migration and actually listen to what the people have to say and what their wants are. (Sovereignty doesn't work anymore in this day and age) Instead of affordable housing the concern for everything rainbow is increasing. We have massive resource shortages but they still press on with their plans. Nuclear energy is not the solution but for the interim the best we have. Crumbling industry and degrading attractiveness for home grown businesses. But apparently deindustrialization is good. 🤷🏻♀️ Todays demographics don't work out anymore. Creating problems top down instead of solving them from the bottom up, endangeres this experiment which to a degree kept our continent peaceful, prosperous and safe. We gotta get those qualities back.
To be honest when push come to shove all right wing populists will not break with the EU. Also take a look at Denmark how they tackle populism, even though they are an odd case.
As current EU politicians are incapable of controlling illegal immigration , then massive political change is needed , and a total ban on illegal immigration with deportation the norm
You can't create a feeling of belonging to Europe since European isn't a culture. Why do you think the EU goes on and on about our values whitout ever stating them clearly? Its because we dont share values or a common political culture in Europe. The EU needs to do less better not more worse. The EU should be a forum where European nations can cooperate when there intrests align and nothing more. Its time to abandon the fantasies of a European super power, it would not make our countries better and it would not make us safer. Europe needs to abandon the imperialistic instincts still present in the political thinking from the former colonial powers like France. We want a Europe of Nationstates not an Empire
Im curious, 🤔 If the point of this video is to analyze "right-wing populism" and more so, how the EU can better address the "populism" part (which I'm still having trouble understanding why you've linked terms to begin with), then it seems pretty obvious that you yourself, in addition to your fellow Europeans, agree that whatever the EU has been doing, aint working out. Now, if you are of the opinion that countering the problems is a good thing, and that "right-wing" is a bad thing, but only the "right-wing" is actually offering solutions to the problems that you admit need to be addressed, but are against adressing them if the "right-wing" is the one who ends up doing it..... then you sir, are an ideologue. Here in America, we refer to people such as yourself as having, "Trump derangement syndrome". A mental decease brought about when, 'the orange man' showed up and said, "Ok, you've had your fun, but this shit ends now, Daddys home" Whenever a group of entitled and sheltered individuals, are held accountable for their practices for the first time, the result is to be expected. Back in the day, we tried a more tactful approach. Reagan and his smooth words was able to 'dumb it down' without making it sound patronizing, which worked extremely well for the short-term, but ultimately didn't kill the vine, because he we are. Trump simply surgar coat it. He was very vocal and open about the problems we all know exist. Moreover, he pulled back the curtain and showed us what the hive of ideologues who no doubt 'educated' you were actually doing, which had the effect of a firecracker thrown in cave full of sleeping bears, which will ultimately bring about our next civil war I'm sure, but sometimes it be that way. There's a reason why I brought up 'education' like that. There is a very real universal truth. An education only comes from understanding and understanding only comes from doing, yet those who can not do, teach, and teach they have! Which is probably the reason why experience is chosen over degrees, in 99 out of a 100 institutions today. To many teachers. Not enough doers. But at least you had fun while it lasted, right? Daddys home.
I don’t know about in Europe, but here in America, not all right wingers are against environmentalism as a whole. It’s just the green energy stuff. They prefer Nuclear Energy and Natural Gas.
Are you talking about voters or are you talking about republican political positions. I often hear individual right wing voters say things that sound crazy to me. Like that republicans don’t care about taking away gay marriage. Or your comment about green energy. I often tell these people that they as individuals may have no problem with gay people but the entire Republican Party is United in its efforts to undo gay marriage and support laws that stigmatize gay people. And I say the same thing to you. Just because you may personally support nuclear has nothing to do with what right wing politicians are doing. They are 100% behind fossil fuels. They are 100% anti green energy. Period. It doesn’t matter what individual people think. What matters is what politicians sign into law. And judging by the laws your politicians support, they really love global warming, and fossil fuel corporations.
@@josephp.1919 Well I haven’t heard of any mainstream republicans repealing g*y marriage, and the way I see it politicians on both sides will one thing, claim another, and actually do something else entirely. Also, I guess I’m not in favor of propping up our modern government system on a pedestal. Anyways, I’m rambling take care. ✌🏻
Wildwers just won elections in Holland. EU has not done enough to keep all members happy. Too much diversity and difference of opinions. Not sure how EU would survive on long run.
I agree with the statement that there's concern about the future and about national identity. For example, as Italian I was quite excited to be part of EU and our partecipation was kinda important since we are the third economic power of Europe. But about European integration, while being part of Europe and define myself as European is a good thing, I continue to feel to be a foreign in this continent because I always hear more voices against us than those who stands with us. People that says we are lazy or corrupt and wants to relegate us to a lesser marginar role in European political life. I don't want to be the working mule of an Union that doesn't care about me and my culture but expect me to make much of the work without any recognition. We literally threw tons of money to EU to make sure our allies in the Union was able to thrive and trade and then these people call us "lazy"? Or "corrupt"? After the trillions of euro we gave to them each year? Maybe we should just consider to let Germany fail, and with it also the rest of EU, and then assume the leadership of Europe by ourselves and impose new laws that really grants dignity and justice for all. Not only and always for those privilidged ones. I remember those reports about gas prices from Gazprom to Europe few years ago when we noticed that Germany paid less for more gas than what Poland had the chance to deal. Is that justice? Why polish have to pay more for the same amount of gas than the Germans if they are closest to Russia? You know the answer. Because Germany is the biggest power of Europe so it counts more than others. Same for us Italians when we opposed to the war in Libya. We had agreements with the Libyans, we had business with them, we had the situation at hand. But British and French decided to ignore us and start a war that led directly to this immigrant humanitarian crisis. And the Americans decided even to back up these fools. Not enough, Britts that fears immigration decided to close their borders, but that was against European policies, so they left EU to do that. Everything revolves around these big motherfuckers. Always. We counts nothing. If this is the equity of EU, then I say we must change it. And it's better that Americans and Russians and Chinese this time to stay out of our business or things will get truly awful for all.
As a American I totally agree with you. We are raised here to believe we are allies with Europe and really hear nothing but good things. It was a shock to learn how xenophobic most Europeans are to us and how much they hate us. I understand we aren't perfect but I've seen European condemning us for actions their own governments help support. It's at a point where I wonder why continue being in NATO or allies at all. I really think the US should just stop being the "world's police". Pull out our military from Europe. Stop having our Navy all over the world "guarding" sea lanes, stop messing around in the Middle East, and stop giving millions if not billions to other nations in foreign aid. That money could be used here.
@@baronvonjo1929 wish more americans think the way you do. most americans fail to see the big issues at home, instead pointing their fingers and guns towards the vietnam, middle east, russia or china. problems like crime, poverty, homelessness, low minimum wage, poor working conditions, low quality of life in terms of city affordability, walkability, etc. these things require reform, which requires the will of the people and thus focus and attention to these issues. despite big promises on every election, none of these issues were ever seriously addressed. the US is turning more and more angry and nasty, making the world a much less peaceful place.
@@baronvonjo1929 t the present day, with all the propaganda your governments feeds you, America could looks like being the "world's police" but in reality, they send your soldiers to destroy entire countries in the name of the profit of your corporations. That's why any Europeans hate Americans. I hate too that side of America. Thinking that America was built to be something new, that cut the ties with the old world to forge a new world where to live free and in peace, and instead it looks like having to deal with the Third Reich/Soviet Union 2.0 its a fucking shame. It's even humiliating because we adopted some of those concepts like "not waging wars to fix problems between countries" just to discover that we are among the few that truly believes in this bullshit. It came to my mind to ask what was the point of WW2 and those 75 years of humiliation if America and the other Allies are just the same scum of the Axis powers? All our deaths, all our sacrifices, all our blood, wasted for nothing. And what is worst is that this shit is continuing again and again just to carry on with the same megacorporations that are destroying our world. America needs to experience the side of the losers of WW2 in first person, so they will finally realize what they have done and what it comes in acting in that way. As like the same for the French and the British and the Russians.
Italy still has more than 2500 billion euros in outstanding debt to the EU, which is why you pay so much. You already got that money to fix your economy and now have to pay back. If you would pay trillions like you said, that debt would have been repaid, which it has not, so you do not. This is exactly the blatant lies populists tell you to hate on the EU, which you apparently believe. Aside from that, it wouldn't have been a picknick for both Italy and the EU if NATO would have let the military dictator Gadaffi oppress the Libyans and build nukes right next to Europe, don't you think? Northern Europe also took in millions of refugees from southern Europe and the EU had diplomats running around fulltime to get countries to take back illegal refugees. Don't go yelling that populist bullshit here, everyone involved is doing what they can to solve these problems together. They can do better sure, but Italy can do better as well. Get good politicians in power who actually give a shit, instead of playing the victim and electing literal fascists to govern you.
Great video as always. EU citizens need to be aware of our historical context, what surrounds us now and what will in the future... But those arguments are not on everyone's dinner table sadly. Education, marketing, promoting a European identity are much needed. Thanks for your content. Greetings from Spain
