{"id":42774,"date":"2019-01-15T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42774"},"modified":"2019-01-15T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:18:17","slug":"europe-is-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42774","title":{"rendered":"Europe is Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Johannes Vermeer The soldier and the laughing girl <\/b>1657<\/center><\/p>\n

There will be elections for the European Parliament on May 23-26 2019. They will likely change the face of Europe more than anything has done since the EU was founded. That is not some wild prediction. Many European countries have held elections since the last European elections in 2014, and just about all had outcomes that shook up domestic political ratios.<\/p>\n

In most cases, countries went from traditional parties to newly founded ones. France erased the Socialists and center-right in 2017, and the final round of the presidential elections was between Marine Le Pen\u2019s Front National and Emmanuel Macron\u2019s brand-new En Marche. Macron won sort of by default, because France as a country would never have voted for Le Pen.<\/p>\n

In Italy, M5S and Lega have taken over. In Germany, Merkel\u2019s CDU\/CSU coalition lost bigly though it remained the biggest party, but Angela lost her \u2018socialist\u2019 SPD partner which gave up so much it didn\u2019t want to be in government anymore. In Spain, Mariano Rajoy\u2019s center right lost enough to cede power to the Socialists who came up tops because they played a smart game, not because the Spanish wanted it to rule.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have to go through all 27\/28 different countries to establish that there are almost tectonic shifts happening all over, away from traditional parties and towards whoever showed up without insanely extreme views. And if you think this move is now completed, you may want to think again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amusing to realize that the country with the biggest political shift, the UK, is the only one that still hangs on to its traditional parties, and seeks its protest voice in a different way, namely through Brexit. That is, Britain shows it can get no satisfaction from the EU, whereas in the other major EU nations the dissatisfaction is projected onto domestic parties.<\/p>\n

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