Elections in Europe

[LuFins Dad]

How bad was it? I get that a few of the right wing winners are extreme, but it seems to me like most of the winners were conservative only in that they want some restrictions and efforts taken to slow migration to reasonable levels, and want to loosen some of the insane restrictions on farming in the EU.

So what am I missing? Why all the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the media?

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in Elections in Europe:

gnashing of teeth by the media?

clicks and eyeballs

gnashing draws clicks

[Klaus]

The EU elections are a farce. A joke on many levels.

There is no such thing as a European party. There is no platform. The ads show just faces of politicians with generic feel-good messages. Nobody knows what the EU is doing and what and what not the EU parliament can decide. It's all completely removed from real life.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Klaus said in Elections in Europe:

he EU elections are a farce. A joke on many levels.

I've always found it hilarious that Nigel Farage's only election successes were as a European MEP.

[Renauda]

When the organisation was a free trade and investment body, the European Common Market, it was of great benefit to its member states in terms of streamlining the flow of goods, services and capital across borders among economies of scale. Since the end of the Cold War it has morphed into a hydra quite out of touch with the individual state needs and peculiarities of its membership. As an organisation it has very much overreached itself into the day to day political sphere of European life and requires a complete overhaul which, if necessary, will require redefined mission and mandate for its continuance and future viability.