Analysis: Italy’s Salvini leads Europe’s ethnonationalist surge
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Like President Trump and ultranationalists elsewhere, Salvini promises to put “Italians first.” And he marshals local resentment toward the policies of the European Union, railing against its cosmopolitan bureaucrats and what he calls rapacious bankers. This week, he roiled financial markets after suggesting that heavily indebted Rome would be willing to break E.U. budgetary rules that cap how much public debt member states can accrue.
— Matteo Salvini May 15, 2019 In a week’s time, Salvini may make the nightmare all too real for the European establishment. His party and a constellation of other far-right and Euroskeptic parties stand to make significant gains in European parliamentary elections. One estimate suggests far-right and anti-establishment factions could win as much as 35 percent of the vote, rivaling the major center-right and center-left blocs on the continent.
“Most of these far-right populist parties have understood that telling people they would leave the E.U. and the euro is scary,” Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the extreme right at the Fondation Jean Jaurès think tank in Paris, told France 24. “And the example of Brexit adds to this: The British know what they want to get out of, but they have no idea where they’re going.
In Budapest this month, Salvini traveled with Orban to Hungary’s fenced border and issued a warning that Orban’s and his opponents to the left were too permissive about immigration. “For our children, to leave behind an Islamic caliphate with sharia law in our cities, is not something I want to do and I’m going to do everything in my power to avert this sad ending for Europe,” he said.
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