Diademo: For all the drama in France and Germany, projections of a broader hard-right takeover of the EU did not materialised. The new parliament will lean to the right, but the wider shift to nationalist parties has failed. Outside France and Germany, the centre holds. x.com/TheEconomist...

For all the drama in France and Germany, projections of a broader hard-right takeover of the EU did not materialised. The new parliament will lean to the right, but the wider shift to nationalist parties has failed. Outside France and Germany, the centre holds. x.com/TheEconomist...

Thanks for the big picture on this. The news yesterday was scary.

I totally agree, Anne. I'm still not confident.

I'm not at all sure that people in the US have a clear grasp of how little "far right" European political parties align with the US political "far right."

For now, it doesn't look that bad as I was. For now. But they are dangerously growing all over the world.

Thank you, Diademo! Your posts are always important to me. 💜

This is great news. The center has held. Waiting to see how many seats Macron will lose (or not).

Maybe they're still freshly imbued with how fascism led to World Wars and the resulting devastation to infrastructure, economies, and most of all the loss of millions of people.

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