Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2016 23:40:32 GMT 7
The surge of populist right-wing parties in Europe has now damaged the standing of the continent’s most important leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Worse, the rise of movements fueled by nationalistic and racist programs signals that a core ethos of the European-American alliance vital to global stability for seven decades is threatened by extremist politics on both sides of the Atlantic.
There are many tangible factors in the lurch to the narrow nationalism reflected in Britain’s vote to quit the European Union, the defeat of Merkel’s conservative forces by the three-year-old Alternative for Germany party in a key state election last Sunday, and the earlier rise of such movements in Poland, Hungary, France and elsewhere.
These factors include a backlash to economic dislocation caused by globalization, the floodtide of refugees coming from Syria and other failed states on Europe’s southern periphery, and the terrorist outrages committed by the Islamic State and other jihadist forces.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/americas-internationalist-ideal-is-dying-in-europe/2016/09/09/e16a63e6-7615-11e6-b786-19d0cb1ed06c_story.html?utm_term=.efba1d08df5f
There are many tangible factors in the lurch to the narrow nationalism reflected in Britain’s vote to quit the European Union, the defeat of Merkel’s conservative forces by the three-year-old Alternative for Germany party in a key state election last Sunday, and the earlier rise of such movements in Poland, Hungary, France and elsewhere.
These factors include a backlash to economic dislocation caused by globalization, the floodtide of refugees coming from Syria and other failed states on Europe’s southern periphery, and the terrorist outrages committed by the Islamic State and other jihadist forces.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/americas-internationalist-ideal-is-dying-in-europe/2016/09/09/e16a63e6-7615-11e6-b786-19d0cb1ed06c_story.html?utm_term=.efba1d08df5f
