If Europe continues to waste the far right, how can it stand in front of Trump? | Tho Nagwin and Janek Yansen
When Ursula von der Layen made her stadium to become head of the European Commission in 2019, she set up “European road“ In the heart of its attractiveness. Under its supervision, she said that Europe will be an initial force based on multiple parties, fair trade and system -based system, firm stability and monotheism against tyranny, protectionism, and zero thinking policy.
Six years later, Europe again calls to “Fight“For this future. But the vision is fading quickly. This summer brought a series of negative headlines “The humiliation” of Europe; Some critics said it was the worst in years, if not in a century. Everyone referred to the same reality: European leaders, for fear of trade war and the loss of American support for Ukraine, have bent on the list of Trump administration’s wishes and left the introduction re -evaluation tools fund without prejudice. The American president has reduced praise and was constructed with unbalanced approval. Wearing pragmatic clothes, which she felt as though she surrendered to many Europeans.
But the case passes much deeper than an unbalanced “deal”. Europe’s public introduction to Trump is a symbol of the wider distress. European Union leaders and institutions are not only bowed to solid tyranny across the Atlantic Ocean. It also routinely cleansing the right -wing forces at home. In doing so, they eat values and the same principles – democracy, the rule of law, open markets and climate responsibility – which they claim to support. Often, with the tone of moral superiority, mention others by following.
The pattern plays through many areas of politics.
In recent years, the European Union’s deportation policy has become a clear sign of how to attract Europe’s values. Under pressure from the far right, European Union governments and institutions alike framing the immigration as a to threaten Instead of the source of strength for societies and Europe. This has consequences for the rule of law and human rights. illegal spread Rotally tolerance is tolerated. Non -governmental organizations that conduct rescue missions in the face of the Mediterranean impediment. And “immigration deals” with countries like Tunisia effectively Use of external sources Europe accountable to governments that publicly explode. The Schengen Agreement, which was a symbol of European integration, risks side damage with temporary border checks. Almost permanent In many European Union countries under the pretext of migration pressure.
A similar political dynamic began to undermine the aspirations of the climate in the European Union. The European Green Deal, which is deported by von der Layen as. “The moment of Europe on the moon“It has fallen increasingly prey to a crusade of the developed right that exports climate policies as the imposition of the elite who bush farmers, companies and ordinary citizens. The middle right parties are eager to benefit from momentum, and join them. To the front, these parties are increasing The extreme right, and away from the European Union Democratic Center.
Many of these decisions are defended in the name of pragmatic realism. Some argue that submitting to Trump has been buying European time since its disposal, strengthening defense, and implementing deeper reforms that cannot happen overnight. The most stringent immigration policies are presented as reflecting the will of the people who are invalid, regardless of potential human rights violations. Climate’s ambitions must be slowed until economic growth and “annex” innovation. With the elections that are waving on the horizon somewhere in the European Union, many major parties warn that “real issues” of voters or risk to hand over victory to the far right.
Under pressure from non -liberal forces at home and abroad, leaders are increasingly deciding to exchange long principles for stability. However, history shows that the strategy of reducing damage cannot gain authoritarian actors. And every privilege dances in the stigma that once preserved with a prominent right -wing ideas on the margin. What was previously an extremist is increasingly treated as natural, which puts the rule of law and democracy under pressure on the continent. The problem is no longer confined to specific policy areas or individual member states such as Hungary or Slovakia. From the German local authorities trying to suppress the Palestinians DemonstrationsPrime Minister Italy Reputation The judiciary to prohibit immigration policies for it, the European People’s Party is campaigns in Brussels Difitimise Non -governmental organizationsFor several governments of the European Union Call To re -interpret the European Human Rights Convention, a dangerous pattern appears throughout the European Union.
Once European leaders begin to address basic rights, courts and civil society as obstacles to popular will, they open the door to a dangerous segment, as adherence to values turns from a commitment to discretionary power.
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This selective application of values is not more clear than it was in the response of the European Union to Gaza. Its continuous failure to take meaningful measures against Israel Breaking violations From human rights and international law risk leaving a permanent scar on its global credibility. Even the chairman of the committee Freezing bilateral support For Israel, the proposal to the punishment of extremist ministers and violent settlers and the suspension of the European Union Association for Israel in part, this has not yet come two years of failure to work.
Europe cannot forget to forget an essential fact: values and principles are not the luxuries that must be customized when the pressure is escalating. Defending it is not perfect naive-it is a strategic necessity, whether to confront tyranny at home and form a multi-polar world abroad.
If European leaders remain silent and silent, hoping that Trump will simply fade, they are risk not only their dignity but their political agent. By doing this, they allow the remote right -wing forces to fill the void and permanently tilt the balance. On the global level, the only viable path is to build new partnerships – but these will not be embodied unless Europe remains united and defends the values that recognize it with the same conviction that it requires from others. The same applies at home: the extreme right is to adopt mechanical right -wing policies that does not deviate from extremism: it legitimizes it and the union is destroyed from the inside. Instead, Europe must link pluralism actively, the rule of law, open societies and climate work as power sources.
If the “European method” means anything, Europe must finally defend what it represents – not only with words, but at work.