It is not a coincidence that world financial crisis has triggered a new current of protest in Europe. The radical movements both from left or right are gaining position in the oldest democracies of Europe. Sweden and Holland have include right wing parties in their goverments for the first time since begining of the cold war. Liberals and conservatives are in critical position in Belgium, while the social democrats had the worst results since the last 30 years in the UK , Germany and Austria, where again the radical ÖPD took advantage of the increasing anti-immigrant position of the society. And this are not good news.
Le Pens Front National already had at the end of the 90s a great result gathering the protests of the working classes and extreme right wing movements against the political class on power, once against the socialists and afterwards against the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac.
But that's not all, since the latest european extension to the east , Hungary and Poland also experience an increase of support to the radical and populist right but also left parties.
Le Pens Front National already had at the end of the 90s a great result gathering the protests of the working classes and extreme right wing movements against the political class on power, once against the socialists and afterwards against the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac.
But that's not all, since the latest european extension to the east , Hungary and Poland also experience an increase of support to the radical and populist right but also left parties.
Is the traditional party system on question mark ? Greece, which the socialist goverment, had to ask for european help after declaring the country almost in bankrupt, which force to apply the most anti-popular reform. Those reforms took thousands of people on the streets, and now in France, Sarkozys plans for the retirement reform has put the radical work class movements on the streets almost blocking the operativity of the country. Spain is at the rear of Europe, with the must inoperant president since 1978.
In Germany, the socialist Sarrazin (SPD) and other conservatives leaders had started a new debate about immigration which, they said, will diminish the german society and alerting about the increase of the islamism among the young generations of turks and arabs. This past weekend, Kanzlerin Angela Merkel has confirm what everybody already new, and breaking up with decades of german tradition, afirmed that the "multikulti" policies are no longer valid for the german society and highlighted that the integration inmigrants (mostly turkish) has been unsuccessful, "Every immigrant must accept the german state, its rules, and speak our language".
Finance crisis , more crisis .... , but there is something we should not forget. In the early 30s of the 20th century, Mussollini took power in Italy and began the fascist dictatorship having the support of the low classes, and Hitler won the elections in 1932 with arguments like blaming the judes and the european countries of the disaster of the German economy with 30% of unemployment rates...
I strongly want to alert on that, we don't want our Europe to return to those dark times, we need a strong European Union which finally make a common understand and lead the countries to leave the current financial crisis, make a common policy to solve the immigration problem, and moreover face China's expansion not with fear but like an apportunity to protect and expand our companies and corporations. A strong Euro against other currencies is no longer desired, let's help our companies to export the european products without more penalties, let's make them more competitive. Let's control the budgets of european programs like Galileo which due to a undesirable management and miscoordination will cost the tax payers more than they could imagine 10 years ago.
Europe has been built based on christian values, and has to continue to believe in freedom, democracy, and a good social system.
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