Europe’s most
important EU member state, the all powerful resurgent Germany, gasps at the
surprise rise of the anti Euro and anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland. The far right party won 94 seats in the September 2017 elections with 12.5% of the national vote. The party has finally broken through the 11%
barrier, the symbolic percentage figure that makes others sit up and take
notice.
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| Staring at the surreal after the German Right party Alternative für Deutschland makes gains in the September 2017 elections. Image Frank Gehry buildings in Dusseldorf. |
Feeble, lousy, inadequate
are words being used by the German media to describe recent past performances
of European Liberal Democracy. There has
been plenty of warning signs and plenty of dissenting voices in pointing out the
failures of the Neo-Liberals and the European Dimension but still against it
all the Brussels federalist machine keeps on spouting “More Europe” and “we
will win back the people when they re-discover the European project.”
Meantime the Right
marches on and on and on.
Germany is leader
of Europe and the European project. German citizens are not content to sit back
and not be consulted about the backroom design of its new character, directions
and political roles. Germany is the sum total of its people and as such need to
be fully on board for concent to future changes.
National Populism
is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Learning to accommodate it and
address its concerns is just as much a problem for the European project elites
as it is for those at grassroots.
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