'A Europe of nations' is an ideological muddle disguising unacknowledged trade-offs
EUROPE’S right-wing populists will take votes off an array of mainstream rivals at next weekend’s election to the European Parliament. But what exactly do they want? To that, the nationalists provided answers of sorts at their big end-of-campaign rally in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo today.
“It is up to us,” said Tomio Okamura, leader of the Czech far-right, “to decide whether Europe should remain European or whether Merkel, Juncker and Macron [cue boos from the crowd] will be able to Islamise Europe.” Jörg Meuthen of Alternative for Germany issued a shopping list including a leaner EU, powers returned to national governments, more free trade, more security for citizens and a “Fortress Europe” on migration.
Which all sounded, from a collection of nationalists, rather European. Indeed, several speakers emphasised the point: “We are not anti-Europeans as the mainstream claims,” protested Mr Meuthen: “We are the true Europeans. We are against the current Europe and its current elites.” Talk of leaving the EU, of Frexit or Nexit or Öxit, has gone.
The conceptual muddles underwrote the more practical contradictions in the prospectus advanced on the Piazza del Duomo.
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