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The
political scene in the EU after recent euro elections reveals a
politically and ideologically divided Europe. In most cases there was
a clear rise of the eurosceptics mostly from the nationalist groups,
while the Left achieved a historical win in Greece without, however,
to manage to become a significant political power in other European
countries.
The big rise
of the nationalists in UK and France should not be considered
accidental. Nationalists use a rhetoric, which is concentrated to a
high degree against migrants - Farage turned against European
migrants too (Burlgarians, Romanians etc.) - and through this, they
managed to become leading powers in UK and France. It is remarkable
that both UKIP and National Front will share equal seats in the new
euro parliament (24 each), while they are also quite close
considering the number of votes in each country.
However, the
first place in euro elections by the nationalists in UK and France
has to do with the fact that their rhetoric is also enriched, not
only with an exaggerated xenophobia, but also with one quite powerful
dose of ... "Germanphobia". Inside the storm of the
economic crisis and the cruel austerity measures imposed by Berlin
and Merkel, nationalists grabbed the chance to point the German
hegemony and feed the anti-European feelings of millions of citizens
in two countries that they were playing clearly a top role in the
past, in Europe and globally, by following their own independent
policy.
However,
Nigel Farage seems to be more flexible and adaptable in the new
conditions. Although his rhetoric in the euro parliament is basically
nationalistic, he enriched his speech with a phraseology against the
big capital. He was probably the only one who dared to say the big
truth inside the euro parliament: "... we are run now by big
business, big banks and in the shape of Mr Barroso, big bureaucrats
...", in his response to the Greek PM Antonis Samaras.
On the other
hand, the first place in euro elections by the Left in Greece, shows
that the political geography of the recent euro elections is directly
proportional to the plan of the neoliberal dictatorship for Europe.
This proves that the neoliberal policies are implemented gradually
since Greece is a country suffered the most cruel and abrupt changes
in the current experiment in process. This is another strong
indication that Greece is the lab-rat through which the corresponding
policies will be implemented in Europe. The restriction of the most
cruel measures in a small peripheral country, like Greece, was
targeting, on the one hand, the new conditions to be tested before
implemented in European level, on the other hand, the Left's first
place to be restricted inside Greek borders in order to hold limited
power in the new euro parliament.
This means
that the designers of the experiment worry about a massive rise of
the Left in the countries of European south, exactly because the Left
is ideologically against the big capital and groups of interests and
this is something that one can see in the way through which the
banking-media establishment in Greece launched the propaganda against
SYRIZA before euro elections. This propaganda still continues today
with the help of the German directorate (Schäuble statements).
The rhetoric
of Farage against the big businesses and big banks, leaves an open
door to the possibility that eurosceptics from the Left and some
nationalist groups may join forces at least for matters concerning
the war against the big interests who impose policies at the expense
of the majority of people, in order the decisions who serve those
interests to be rejected inside the euro parliament. There are
already some examples of such wins from the previous euro parliament,
especially when the European citizens decide to support such actions:
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/03/a-significant-win-against-multinational.html
It would be
very interesting to see whether different political ideologies, from
different countries, could join forces against the big banking and
corporate lobbies in order to open the road for the total defeat of
the European neoliberal economic empire and point to the direction of
another Europe based on humanitarian values for the benefit of
people.
It is quite
possible that the systemic establishment in European level will try
to activate the extreme ideological reflexes, in order to prevent a
solid front against neoliberal destructive policies using probably
the rise of neo-nazis, the new nightmare which unfortunately seems to
be returning to Europe. It has been done already in Ukraine ...
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