How the EU can resist the divisive influence of the far right | Letters
Thomas Laffitte on the threats facing the European Union and Giorgio Re on why the strongest defence must come from the democratic right and centre-rightYour editorial rightly highlights the European...
By Guardian Staff · The Guardian Opinion
Thomas Laffitte on the threats facing the European Union and Giorgio Re on why the strongest defence must come from the democratic right and centre-right Your editorial rightly highlights the European far right’s maturing plans for Brussels’ political machinery ( The Guardian view on the far right’s plans for Brussels: doing the work of Xi, Putin and Trump, 27 October ). Alongside these developments, the evolution of Euroscepticism itself deserves closer attention. As I argued in a recent report from the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, anti-EU politics may have entered a phase of “post-Euroscepticism”. The discourse remains, but the ambition to dismantle the union has increasingly given way to blocking the march towards an ever closer union while retaining the existing structure and exploiting it. Continue reading...