Populists Surge Ahead of June Elections

The progressive ivory tower of the EU is at risk of tumbling.

A repost from my latest article in European Conservative…

Last November, Geert Wilders’ party PVV (Party for Freedom) won 37 out of 150 parliamentary seats in the Netherlands elections. PVV had previously held 16 seats. Now, Wilders is poised to become the country’s next prime minister. This result is one of the European Union’s worst nightmare scenarios.

It’s not just the Netherlands. Forecasts show that nationalist parties are surging in Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Cyprus. As Nigel Farage recently said in The Telegraph, “UKIP and the Brexit Party were ahead of their time. The populist surge that we will see in the European elections next spring will mark the beginning of the end of the EU in its current centralized form.”

On the continent, it has been noted that the yearly costs of “non-Western immigration amount to €17 billion and the annual net benefits of Western immigration total one billion euros” in the Netherlands alone.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/populists-surge-ahead-of-june-elections/