‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says
Voting patterns and polling data from the past year suggest the EU is moving towards a more ethnic, closed-minded and xenophobic understanding of “Europeanness” that could ultimately challenge the European project, according to a major report.
The report, by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), identifies three key “blind spots” across the bloc and argues their intersection risks eroding or radically altering EU sentiment.
The report, shared exclusively with the Guardian, argues that the obvious “whiteness” of the EU’s politics, low engagement by young people and limited pro-Europeanism in central and eastern Europe could mould a European sentiment at odds with the bloc’s original core values.
Nationalism sucks no matter who does it. Address immigration problems using data and pragmatic policy. Don’t address it by allowing bigotry to fester in your population based on lies.
Seriously. Why does every single Center->Left of center government not understand the alt-right playbook at this point? Stop trying to fight fire with water (good guy things) and start taking a page out of the Dark Brandon playbook.