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I was pretty excited about Meloni, then she went all globalist. Weird. Just seemed to happen. This describes the phenomenon, but doesn't get into the how of it.
Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, has boasted that the European Union (EU) has “disciplined” populists like Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, ensuring they do not seriously challenge the globalist status quo exemplified by politicians like France’s President Emmanuel Macron.
An old opponent of Brexit champion Nigel Farage, the German socialist has explained in an interview that “European integration is surprisingly democratically stabilizing” – that is, European Union law and the institutions that enforce it are good at stopping democratic elections which return anti-establishment candidates from really changing anything. (This is how globalists describe stable democracy)
“Let’s look at Ms. Meloni since she became Prime Minister,” he said of Italy’s new leader, whose election initially triggered panic among media organizations from NPR to the BBC, who branded her the country’s most “far-right” leader since Benito Mussolini.
The supposed populist, Schulz said, “makes a bit of a racket internally,” but has ultimately fallen in line as “a reliable partner at European level.”
Indeed, though she was elected as a eurosceptic social conservative promising a naval blockade to end an illegal boat migrants crisis, she has governed as a Ukraine war hawk who literally holds hands with Joe Biden at summits and insists that “Europe and Italy need immigration.”
Schulz noted that French populist leader Marine Le Pen and German populist leader Alice Weidel, too, have given up talking about leaving the European Union or even dropping the euro currency, and boasted that the EU “disciplines right-wing populists.”
Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, has boasted that the European Union (EU) has “disciplined” populists like Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, ensuring they do not seriously challenge the globalist status quo exemplified by politicians like France’s President Emmanuel Macron.
An old opponent of Brexit champion Nigel Farage, the German socialist has explained in an interview that “European integration is surprisingly democratically stabilizing” – that is, European Union law and the institutions that enforce it are good at stopping democratic elections which return anti-establishment candidates from really changing anything. (This is how globalists describe stable democracy)
“Let’s look at Ms. Meloni since she became Prime Minister,” he said of Italy’s new leader, whose election initially triggered panic among media organizations from NPR to the BBC, who branded her the country’s most “far-right” leader since Benito Mussolini.
The supposed populist, Schulz said, “makes a bit of a racket internally,” but has ultimately fallen in line as “a reliable partner at European level.”
Indeed, though she was elected as a eurosceptic social conservative promising a naval blockade to end an illegal boat migrants crisis, she has governed as a Ukraine war hawk who literally holds hands with Joe Biden at summits and insists that “Europe and Italy need immigration.”
Schulz noted that French populist leader Marine Le Pen and German populist leader Alice Weidel, too, have given up talking about leaving the European Union or even dropping the euro currency, and boasted that the EU “disciplines right-wing populists.”
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