Thoughts about Europe Finally we succeeded! There is no Marine le Pen in France, no Gerd Wilders in the Nethlands and even in Germany the apparently unstoppable rise of the far right Movement has stop

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Thoughts about Europe Finally we succeeded! There is no Marine le Pen in France, no Gerd Wilders in the Nethlands and even in Germany the apparently unstoppable rise of the far right Movement has stopped after the last regional elections. All in all it sounds like we have saved the Union and could get back to our ordinary daily challenges. But there are still some urgently thoughts we have to deal with. First an foremost I find it a concerning trend in the western democracy to choose inexperienced persons for political leader positions. The french decision to vote for Emmanuel Macron instead of voting for le Pen was a important signal against the far right movement, but was it a signal in favour of the democracy? Is Macron perhaps the lesser of two evils? For me it feels a bit like that. There is still a crisis in the approval to the western system, which seems to be perceived as corrupt and far away from the problems of their own citizens. Another signal in favour of this theory was from my point of view the Brexit-Votum of the majority of the elderly British People, while the younger Part had been stayed away. Tired of participating in their own political system. Even the moment of shock on the next morning couldn't trigger a constantly youth movement. It was just a short hangover and in front of the actually election campaign none of the great parties is still considering a so called exit from Brexit. They are all together pushed in fear of losing their political power. Not a truly convincing behaviour. And on the continent we are building walls. Metaphorical in using strong and serious words against former friends and members (There would be no cherry picking!) and factual in building high fences against refugees. Not a truly convincing behaviour at all! So, did we really succeed?

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Thoughts about Europe

Finally we succeeded! There is no Marine le Pen in France, no Gerd Wilders in the Netherlands and even in Germany the apparently unstoppable rise of the far right Movement has stopped after the last regional elections. All in all it sounds like we have saved the Union and could get back to our ordinary daily challenges.

But there are still some urgently thoughts we have to deal with. First and foremost I find it a concerning trend in the western democracy to choose inexperienced persons for political leader positions. The french decision to vote for Emmanuel Macron instead of voting for le Pen was an important signal against the far right movement, but was it a signal in favour of the democracy? Is Macron perhaps the lesser of two evils? For me it feels a bit like that. There is still a crisis in the approval to of the western system, which seems to be perceived as corrupt and far away from the problems of their own citizens.

Another signal in favour of this theory was , from my point of view , the Brexit-Votum vote of the majority of the elderly British People, while the younger Part had been stayed away , tired of participating in their own political system. Even the moment of shock on the next morning couldn't trigger a constantly youth movement. It was just a short hangover and in front of the actually election campaign none of the great parties is still considering a so called exit from Brexit. They are all together pushed in fear of losing their political power. Not a truly convincing behaviour.

And on the continent we are building walls. Metaphorical in using strong and serious words against former friends and members (There would be no cherry picking!) and factual literal in building high fences against refugees. Not a truly convincing behaviour at all!

So, did we really succeed?

Note: Excellent post! Your English is extremely good. I corrected "Brexit-Votum" only because it's not a term I have heard used in English, we've only referred to it as the "Brexit vote" or just simply "Brexit", but I may be wrong. Also you could use factual in the final paragraph, but typically the opposite of metaphorical is "literal".

Watch your use of adverbs vs adjectives. Adverbs (almost always ending in -ly) describe verbs or adjectives, while adjectives describe nouns. Because the word "urgent" describes the noun "thoughts" it has to be an adjective, not an adverb. Because "constant" describes the noun "youth movement" it has to be an adjective. If it had been "constantly evolving youth movement" (for example), then you could use the adverb "constantly" because it is describing the adjective "evolving"

Dear Jacob, Thank you for your comment. I was hoping to get an answer of my thoughts, because I’m really interested in getting in touch with other and not at least foreign opinions. But our thoughts are not as diverse, as you might think. I’m quite concerned about the (European) future and in my short text I didn’t want to suggest, that we did succeed. Instead of that, I wanted to reinforce, that after the described elections there is no reason at all to think, that we have beaten the right movement. I personally wanted to make aware of the established Problems we have in Europe. In the comment you’ve focused your view among other things on Austria and I would agree that the political system over there is in disorder and might be on the edge of a period of transition. I personally would like to put my focus on the eastern part of the European Union. States like Hungary, Poland or Slovakia are from my point of view extremely endangered to loose the main Ideals of the EU. And this is not just the result of the so called refugee-crisis, but mainly of the historic and cultural processing of the communism Time. But how could we eradicate the flaws of the European Union?

I'd like to think you are right but you're not. The progressive and the left shouldn't get their hopes up just because they have beaten the far-right! From the Austrian presidential election, the Dutch general election, to the French presidential election. To think we have won is wrong, the far-right is more relevant than ever even though they have lost all the elections so far. Alexander Van der Bellen had a majority of 0.3% percent over the FPÖ candidate but he did better later. The traditional left and right parties did not even get enough votes to win the first round. Furthermore, the Austrian coalition government has fallen and they will have an election in fall and FPÖ is leading right now. They have been in government once and now they are very likely to return to power! Nothing much on Geert Wilders though. He didn't live up to the polls prediction. The French election is the most divisive election since 1848 I believe. Macron won because of the tactical voting like what happened in 2002. Vote for the crook instead of the fascist. Not very different I must say. People are so disillusioned that they voted for Le Pen and Melenchon this time. PS and LR are not very different when you look closely because the left has abandoned their own principles for neoliberalism. I don't believe more neoliberalism will work but I'd like to see Macron be successful in implementing his policies. Failure of Macron means the end of the EU and a president Le Pen in 2022. Why we shouldn't be relieved from all the victories? What we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. It's not really about refugees, terrorism, unemployment and so on. It's the design of the EU, it is flawed! There're structural problems and I don't believe Europe has enough time to reform before it actually disintegrates.

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