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As June’s European Parliament elections draw closer, European Union leaders’ concerns about how to shift Europe’s political map to the right are becoming increasingly clear from Brussels. Following recent concerns about the preferences of European voters by Lithuanian EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also expressed concern. He told Britain’s The Guardian that behind the rise of the right was not discontent, but fear among voters. “I fear that Europeans are voting this way because they are afraid,” he said.
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In an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian published on Christmas Day, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell expressed his fear of a change of power in the European Parliament in favor of right-wing parties after the June elections. According to the server, Borrell fears that “voters are afraid of the impending wars and will elect populist parties to the European Parliament.”
According to Borrell, voters want a change in EU policy not because of dissatisfaction with the current direction of the EU, but because they are dominated by fear before the elections. “I’m afraid of fear, I’m afraid that Europeans are voting this way because they’re afraid.” It’s scientifically proven that fear in the face of the unknown and uncertainty triggers a hormone that requires a safety response. That is a fact,” Borrell told the Guardian.
The Spanish socialist politician, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, noted that the European Union is caught between two wars, citing events in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. And at a summit organized by Le Grand Continent magazine, he said both conflicts threatened the bloc’s future and, in the case of Ukraine, said he feared defeat unless there was a quick change of course.
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“Perhaps this is the moment when we need to address the danger posed by a great power that threatens our democracy, that threatens Europe itself, not just Ukraine.” And if we don’t change course quickly, if we Unless we mobilize all of our capabilities, Putin will be able to win the war in Ukraine. “If we fail to stop the tragedy in Gaza, I think our project will suffer great damage,” Borrell said, adding: “Putin has decided to continue the war until final victory,” which is a threat to the neighboring countries represents countries and for the Union itself.
In his opinion, it is the current threats that influence people’s voting behavior. “We are bombarded with a media world full of threats, where we learn about evil or war crimes every day, and that leads to fear-driven hormonal activity,” he said, adding that “parties prey on people’s fears and respond poorly “We can offer good ones.” Questions can attract the support of the European population.” Borrell is worried “that the European elections will be just as dangerous as those in the USA.”
He also mentioned the issue of migration and stated that he was not surprised that Europe was attractive to people from all over the world. “We are a magnet for hundreds of thousands of people who live and want to live in Europe. And it’s easy to see why when we compare our standards of living. “We are the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that humanity has ever been able to create,” said Borrell.
The Politico analysis also points to the growth of the right in the 2024 European elections, according to which right-wing and Eurosceptic parties will gain strength in the next European elections at the expense of the centrist parties.
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According to this analysis, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) are expected to become stronger and become the third largest group in the European Parliament. And the right-wing group Identity and Democracy (ID) would also improve significantly. “The expected shift to the right reflects a broader trend in national elections across Europe, where voters in countries like Italy, Finland and Greece are increasingly favoring more conservative and far-right parties,” comments Politico.
According to this analysis, the Greens would be the biggest losers in the upcoming European elections, retaining only 48 seats, meaning a loss of 24 seats. According to the analysis, the left-wing faction would remain the smallest faction in the European Parliament with 45 seats.
The growth of right-wing parties and the desire of voters in European Union countries for change was recently noted by Lithuanian EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, who was appalled at how many parties in the EU are turning away from the Green Deal as “a danger not just for green politics, but for the European project as a whole.”
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According to him, moderate politicians are “taking far-right positions on green legislation” ahead of next year’s European Parliament elections and there is a risk that voters in the EU will make a decision similar to the Dutch. who recently voted massively for Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) and speaks out against EU climate legislation.
Issues such as the Green Deal and migration will be the focus, according to Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who, according to Reuters, mentioned in early December that the goal of the right-wing group Identity and Democracy (ID) would be to achieve at least third place in the European Parliament.
In a speech at the time, Wilders said he hoped his success, a “political earthquake in the Netherlands and Europe,” could be “the beginning of a wave of national electoral victories” for like-minded allies. And Tino Chrupalla from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) stressed the need to ease the EU’s fight against car traffic through emissions standards and called for “an end to the war on cars”.
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Jordan Bardella, head of Marine Le Pen’s French National Association party, also pointed out that migration would be an equally important issue in the upcoming European elections, stressing that “Europe should not become a ‘five-star hostel for “Africa’ should be allowed to become.”
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