EU parliament to shift to the right

According to the latest European Council on Foreign Relations forecast for the 2024 European Parliamentary elections, there will be a major shift to the right in many member states in the June vote.

The forecast also indicates that populist radical right parties are likely to gain votes and seats across the European Union, while center left and Green parties will be losing votes and seats.

• Many have lost faith in the European Union and its ability to work for the common good of all Europeans. 
  

  Anti-European sentiment likely to dominate next EU elections as radical right parties gain support

  Latest polls are showing that radical right parties are poised to secure the top position in several European countries at the next EU elections in June.

Far-right formations are poised to secure the top position in nine countries including Austria, France, Italy and Poland.

The risk that right and far right formation will change the face of the EU at the next elections in June is dramatically high.

Domestic and foreign policy choices will be definitely affected.

This can be explained by looking at the policies in favor of the multinational and of the United States that have been adopted so far by the EU leadership; policies that go against the very interests of the Europeans.

Giampaolo Cadalanu, Political Analyst

Some analysts argue that an increasing number of EU citizens hold Brussels accountable for soaring food costs, economic stagnation, and, deteriorating living standards, across the whole continent.

• Italians protest high cost of living, weapons sale to Ukraine
  

  Thousands of Italians protest high cost of living, weapons sale to Ukraine

  Thousands of Italians hold protests against high cost of living and energy prices, calling for the suspension of the shipment of weapons and money to Ukraine.

The European Union has failed in many ways to deliver on its promises.

The European generation of wealth has been gravely tarnished by more than two decades of tough fiscal measures compounded by wild privatization and outsourcing policies, which have resulted in widespread business closures and massive layoffs.

The US-UK axis has been dictating the line and practically all political parties across the EU, from left to right, have shifted ideologies and allegiances with the goal of remaining as close as possible to that line.

There is the view that the EU is an anti people entity, It wages warfare against its own people; EU citizens' money is used to fund wars and the purchase of weapons and not to support livelihoods.

Geraldina Colotti, Political Analyst

• Controversial EU army established in all but name
  

  Controversial EU army established in all but name

  The EU

EU officials have recently unveiled plans to boost defense production by promoting joint military purchases of European produced arms among the member states.

From February 2022 to June 2023, EU states spent more than €100 billion on defense acquisitions, with the US alone accounting for more than 60%.

In 2022 more than 95 million people in the European Union, or 22% of the population, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion.

• Italian farmers protesting EU policies drive tractors into Rome
  

  Italian farmers protesting against EU policies drive tractors into Rome

  They have asked to hold a meeting with Prime Minsiter Giorgia Meloni and Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida.

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