Europe's far-right: Tempting partners for conservatives?

Europe's far-right: Tempting partners for conservatives? | To the point

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Is Europe on the verge of a major shift? Will supporters of Vladimir Putin and friends of China soon have more power in the European Parliament?
According to polls ahead of the European elections, right-wing populists and nationalists are attracting more voters.
But Europe’s far-right is also seeing divisions, between the “Alternative for Germany”, AfD, and the French National Rally Party around Marine Le Pen. How extreme do EU voters want the union to be?
What alliances are being forged? Ursula von der Leyen, the Conservative President of the EU Commission, is openly courting the votes of the Italian head of government Giorgia Meloni and her ultra-right “Fratelli d'Italia”.
On To the Point, we ask: “Europe's far-right: Tempting partners for conservatives”?
Our guests:
Nadine Lindner is the Berlin correspondent for Germany’s Deutschlandfunk, specialized in East German politics and the AfD Party.
Michaela Küfner is DW News’ Chief Political Editor
Burkhard Birke is a freelance journalist. He has previously worked as a correspondent in Paris and Brussels.
Chapters:
01:30 What did the traditional parties do wrong?
02:30 People are looking for direction; they feel left alone
03:00 There are two groups on the far-right. Will they merge after the EU elections?
05:00 The upcoming EU elections are crucial
05:30 Will the far-right become even more mainstream after the European elections?
06:30 AfD leadership is under fire
07:30 There is no tumbling in AfD support in the polls
09:20 The AfD is in “panic mode” and publicly discredited
10:30 Voters are looking for a more “authoritarian style” of politics
11:40 The AfD is moving even more to the right
13:10 Will the firewall between Conservatives and AfD remain?
15:20 Why is Marine Le Pen rejecting the AfD?
16:13 The AfD is not useful for Marine Le Pen
16:40 Is Giorgia Meloni pro-European?
18:40 Ursula von der Leyen seems to be reluctant to cooperate with Marine Le Pen
20:00 Ursula von der Leyen’s “Green Deal” has lost its meaning
21:20 In the EU, compromises are a must
23:00 It will be more difficult to govern the EU after the EU elections
24:00 The EU urgently needs a reform
25:00 The upcoming elections will also be a national referendum
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@HappyG1lmor488 28 күн бұрын

Hilarious how normal people are now "far right". We all see what your agenda is here.

@ourcollectivewisdom8769 28 күн бұрын

There is a spectrum of values and beliefs that you can check out for yourself. Certain policies are without a doubt “right-wing”.

@Rnankn 28 күн бұрын

Yea the fascists have always been “normal”

@goranrajcevic5550 28 күн бұрын

Just like in Canada, peaceful protesters are "far-right" and Ukrainian neo-notsees are totally ok.

@kmick8108 28 күн бұрын

So normal

@alextitei9748 28 күн бұрын

The terms left and right wing were coined during the French Revolution. The radicals called the Montagnards were sitting on the left side/wing of the French National Assembly room and the half radicals called the Girondins were sitting on the right side/wing of the room. Both the Montagnards and Girondins belonged to the same organization(a WEF of sorts called the Jacobin club) and have previously worked together. They continued working together, but the Girondins were more moderate, advocating for less violence. Far right just means you are not in the club, not working with "them".

@VictorLejarsa 28 күн бұрын

How infantile calling people far-right… this is getting boring. You are making this term empty now

@fabianelsen3716 27 күн бұрын

Meanwhile someone asks for a minimum wage that's high enough to afford a single room apartment and the average conservative calls them a communist right away.

@lazynow1 28 күн бұрын

WoW, not wanting to have unlimited illegal immigrants come to your nation and live off of social benefits....is far right...?????

@handle535 28 күн бұрын

I think all parties in Germany, even Die Linke, do not support unlimited, or even limited, illegal immigration. The AFD wants to stop all immigration and even deport citizens, and that *is* far right.

@soundscape26 28 күн бұрын

Is that the only issue in their political ideology?

@artiefakt4402 28 күн бұрын

Yeah... way better to vote for all those right wing populists that get bribed or financed by either China or Russia...

@gtrdxz 27 күн бұрын

@@soundscape26 It should be if it isnt.

@anasttau9908 26 күн бұрын

I am left and totaly against not controled migration!

@douglas5097 28 күн бұрын

When the far left is allowed to go as far as it can, the political pendulum swings to other side. Nothing new here…

@Joey-ct8bm 28 күн бұрын

Where is the far left in the EU? Or even the centre left? We got the rightwing EPP in power for years now. Even Renew has rightwing party's in it. Define the left?

@douglas5097 28 күн бұрын

@@Joey-ct8bm High taxes, bureaucracy, abortion, drugs, uncontrolled immigration, light sentences on heavy crimes and so on. None of these are right wing characteristics. In fact, right wingers are called fascists for opposing that.

@soundscape26 28 күн бұрын

Far left is Communism and the likes... there are no Communist governments in Europe.

@soundscape26 28 күн бұрын

Using the same logic the far right will also be limited in how far it wants to go.

@felipe-vibor 28 күн бұрын

@@soundscape26it's a pendulum

@Animodeus 28 күн бұрын

The world run in equilibrium The far right is getting popular because now the Europen is far left

@soundscape26 28 күн бұрын

No, it's just a problem with migration... people didn't suddenly abandon their positions on most other issues.

@maxman4948 28 күн бұрын

like DW. they are far left and supported by SPD.

@Mitiku-mp7kv 28 күн бұрын

That is left policy right

@Rnankn 28 күн бұрын

Europe is a trade and monetary union, it is a right-project based on capitalist expansion. If it was remotely leftist there would be equality and capitalism would be suppressed. Capital runs everything! If there was equilibrium, it would be the turn of the Left.

@Timo-qb1gf 28 күн бұрын

EU itself is acting as near far left with it's ever increasing bureaucracy machine and planned economy, spreading the net paying countries / tax payers money as a it was common welfare and subventioning the even more corrupt south.

@hiroshi138 28 күн бұрын

I have to stop watching DW. Sorry, but the daily "far right" hysteria is tiresome.

@Rnankn 28 күн бұрын

Yea fascism worked out really well the last time. Nothing to see here.

@anasttau9908 28 күн бұрын

And a big lie, I am left and absolutly against uncontroled migration

@enricodebrito9026 28 күн бұрын

@@RnanknI guess you’ve never heard of communism

@NicolasHaufe 28 күн бұрын

@@Rnanknare you a communist?

@Rnankn 28 күн бұрын

@@NicolasHaufe left libertarian

@femmevalerie_ 17 күн бұрын

This is not about left vs. right. It is about globalism vs. sovereignism.

@SabineWald_NowHere 27 күн бұрын

Let Common Sense Party win. Enough of far out left and their illegals.

@kertparkes9206 28 күн бұрын

The price you pay for cutting education budgets.

@Unknown-jy7ku 28 күн бұрын

Poppet dw what is a deffinition of far right ?

@soton5teve 28 күн бұрын

EU has usual, a hillary clinton style EU, blaming the bernie sanders types, when you end up with the donald trump types. Told you so, but you didn't want to know.

@ThiagoGrez 25 күн бұрын

American culturral colonization

@Samirustem 28 күн бұрын

Italian PM have kind face and her talks are always ok. Cant really fit her with french and german crazies

@emanueledes7 26 күн бұрын

The Italian PM won't last for long. Luckily.

@Leptospirosi 25 күн бұрын

@@emanueledes7 Delusional! Looks like pools tell quite a different story: don't confuse your wet dreams with reality. 😏

@daviddestefanis2989 21 күн бұрын

@@emanueledes7 She will if she changes the PM to have 5 year terms. She could be the PM for 10 years. First since Berlusconi.

@emanueledes7 21 күн бұрын

@@daviddestefanis2989 God forbid :-O III0

@user-vu3xp3oz2o 27 күн бұрын

Far right? you will never see or hear dw utter the phrase far left. This is because this is where they sit. So everyone is right of them. But to push their ideology further everyone is therefore referred to as far right.

@unconventionalideas5683 25 күн бұрын

They might when talking about the likes of Die Linke, but they are not threatening a Marxist takeover of the EU.

@tibsyy895 28 күн бұрын

LOL! THEY deleted my comment!

@AnnieHoll-de4rk 28 күн бұрын

they always do. either delete or hide comments that are uncomfirtable for them. in a few weeks they display them again. cenzonship is strong here.

@unconventionalideas5683 25 күн бұрын

KZfaq eats a certain portion of comments without objectionable content.

@freedom3040 17 күн бұрын

Gobells DW became deleters

@emanueledes7 26 күн бұрын

That alliance is IMPOSSIBLE, and wouldn't even have a majority. The majority at the EP will be again: EPP, S&D, Renew.

@SadisNic 27 күн бұрын

Can we just remind ourselves that the Mussolini's fascists got to their position because the conservatives in Italy sided with them.

@live_free_or_perish 27 күн бұрын

That was really interesting. I started to follow global politics after the war in Ukraine started. Like most Americans, I had no idea what was happening politically in other countries

@alangivre2474 28 күн бұрын

ECR is not the same as the ID.

@JusticeGlobal 4 күн бұрын

It's M & M - Meloni and Marie Le Pen combo!

@yo2trader539 28 күн бұрын

Are they Far Right, or are you Far Left? It's all relative to where you stand. I'm not European, so I always felt Western Europe to be socially too progressive or too Far Left.

@Timo-qb1gf 28 күн бұрын

EU is very left compared to the other western countries. And journalists are like 90% left so what can you expect.

@soundscape26 28 күн бұрын

It depends on what you consider "socially too progressive". Check the list for the standards of living worldwide and which countries come on top. If that's "far left" then bring it on.

@hopeintruth5119 28 күн бұрын

Socially too progressive??? I mean I guess. Equality for women. You won't be killed for whatever you say, lgbtq rights, no division over race, creed, or religion, I mean, if that's far left. I guess far left is extremely favorably compared to whatever trash the world has to offer of discrimination and aggressive unnecessary hierarchy

@gaborrajnai6213 28 күн бұрын

Why is your commentsection swarming with British trolls? They got their Brexit, arent they content?

@woesmaro 26 күн бұрын

the music you guys put behind the news gets me on edge 😂

@johnlane8053 27 күн бұрын

It worked for Weimar Germany, the Conservatives may as well have another crack at it >.

@Arre2011 11 күн бұрын

We who want functioning agriculture in EU, forestry industry in EU, automotive industry in EU, etc. We who don’t want to fill EU with Arabs, Afghans and Africans; why are we called: Far right? Right extremes? It is the green-red parties who has extreme politics on their agenda. Since they want to only support electricity that only exist sometimes, wind power and solar cells, I guess they want EU to have electricity only sometimes… so EU can be more like Africa… Nuclear power is climate smart and it exists 24-7 about 365 days a year. But the green parties in EU are against nuclear power… they are against climate smart technology… they are against themselfs… against their own politics… isn’t that extreme???

@Animodeus 28 күн бұрын

DW IS THE NBC of Europe

@hiroshi138 28 күн бұрын

Or CNN, MSNBC, take your pick

@elmo430o 28 күн бұрын

Where's the "far left"? We want to hear about the "far left". Please do a story on the "far left". We want to hear from the far left extremists.

@soundscape26 28 күн бұрын

The far left has 38 out of 703 European MP's, I don't think there's any danger they'll influence European politics much.

@elmo430o 28 күн бұрын

@@soundscape26 Take the 38 most right-wing M. P's and that is the "far right". Everything else is the middle.

@jikkh2x 25 күн бұрын

@@soundscape26 When politics shifts to make Marine Le Pen centre left, I look forward to you whining about the far right centre.

@daylightmoon7285 25 күн бұрын

The issue is simply immigration. The EU press should not underestimate what they call "the far right." The AFD is the de facto leader of the "right" in Germany. The "far right" in Europe will cooperate with the AFD in the end. Also, the right in Europe is not at all fragmented. Their demands and goals are the same throughout Europe

@Animodeus 28 күн бұрын

I have no problem with legal immigrats , actually i support them They work hard , they study hard but i don't support illigal immigrants But both people should support and accept europian culture

@Rnankn 28 күн бұрын

When your ancestors walked to Europe from Africa, it’s a good thing they were “legal”, before working and studying hard. That is before they eliminated the indigenous European culture with the foreign culture from Anatolia and Eurasia (agriculture), and foreign religion from the Levant (Christianity)

@aviyahcrow6617 28 күн бұрын

There is NO MORE "CULTURE" of each country BECAUSE of the immigration... 😢

@aviyahcrow6617 28 күн бұрын

@@RnanknAfter being slaves? Pretty sure they were "released" & warring tribes have always invaded & co-mingled

@johnhughes2124 24 күн бұрын

Burkhard Birke is the one person on the pannal who almost gets it, the swing towards the right is a question of identity, Europeans believe that their identity is being diluted by mass immigration from countries with different cultures and attitudes, couple this with the grand economic failures of the Eurozone project and the attitude that the only answer to any crises within the EU is 'more Europe' (often led by the same people who created the crisis in the first place) . My advice to the left / centre left is the same as it always has been. Acknowledge that the cordon sanitaire is broken, has been broken for at least the last ten years and that it is extremely unlikely that you will ever be able to put it back. Like it or not hard right politicians in the EU are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Acknowledge that Wilders, Le-Pen, Orban et al are not the knuckle dragging thugs of the 80s far right movements in Europe.and are instead sophisticated political operators that can go up against the best that the EU has to offer e.g. the likes of Michel Barnier, Guy Verhofstadt, Ursula Von der Lynne etc and come on out on top. Resign yourself to the necessity of doing deals with them and use this opportunity to curb their worst impulses, at the same time acknowledging the legitimate social concerns of their voter bases.

@JG-xi4tu 28 күн бұрын

I have full confidence in my european democracy.

@soton5teve 28 күн бұрын

EU; was apparently created to stop nationalism, now it's continued existence just creates more nationalism. As former countries now mere states, wonder what they have to do to get out. Single currency is a lot worse in a monetary crisis. Having decisions made in other countries about your own is ridiculous! Like courts for example

@SimonGros 28 күн бұрын

Michaela Küfner has great insights and carried this entire debate

@user-bm9hs8fj8z 28 күн бұрын

Time is here! Kick of Von Der Pfeizer & friends!

@anasttau9908 26 күн бұрын

Ursula V der lyen is a totaly burned character.

@stephenduffy5406 28 күн бұрын

"Far right?" Not again. Jeez.

@peterwong3886 28 күн бұрын

European taxpayers don’t want war,, But some reason Politicians don’t want peace 😢

@IrrationalCharm 28 күн бұрын

Putler doesn’t want peace.

@Rnankn 28 күн бұрын

Citizens, not taxpayers run democracies

@Animodeus 28 күн бұрын

DW stop taking money from Qatar

@user-vj4sn1hk3n 28 күн бұрын

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@MrBazBake 28 күн бұрын

Listen to the comments, this title is a joke. The conservatives *are* the far-right. The far-right is literally not populist at all -- the left is. 😂

@2024Research 28 күн бұрын

West Germany flooded x2 Russian war while the e.u. or fi god has not spoken?

@Just_another_Euro_dude 26 күн бұрын

Maybe Europe needs a bit of "Europe first!" and "Make Europe great again!"...

@danilosevero2854 27 күн бұрын

Midia pāo com ovo baitola

@user-mc2sf2kt8q 28 күн бұрын

13 countries have declared war on Russia. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Canada and others.

@aviyahcrow6617 28 күн бұрын

You mean SURROUNDED & ATTACKED Russia?

@pheonix-one 27 күн бұрын

Call it a fascist not conservative.

@Lovit-vk5fg 27 күн бұрын

Are you saying right wing people support Putin China in your introduction?

@user-zc2ve6bb6r 25 күн бұрын

We are not far rigt. We are simple normal.

@josephandrews6493 19 күн бұрын

Go right! Save Europe!

@stevekontis8992 28 күн бұрын

I always wondered why we always hear complaints about the extreme right but never about the extreme left. Why is the extreme right gaining ground? Easy, if governments do not pay attention to the well-being and prosperity of their citizens, this feeds the extreme right. Rubbish government is the problem. The extreme right is a symptom of a government failing its citizens.

@soundscape26 28 күн бұрын

That's because the far left has basically no power in Europe. The day Communists threaten to reach positions of power in Europe then we'll have reasons to worry about it.

@aviyahcrow6617 28 күн бұрын

BECSUSE The Govt OWNS Them, so WHY Would the "news" speak ill of those whose narrative they get PAID OFF From repeating?!🤔

@enricodebrito9026 28 күн бұрын

This is just in the hope of swaying voters ahead of the elections with the right wing danger oooohhhh!