Tag: populism

The European Commission's request for an extra €11.2 billion for this year's EU budget is "totally unacceptable," Greg Clark, Britain's financial services minister, said yesterday (27 March). 

Hannes Swoboda, President of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group in the European Parliament, has described as “populist and deceitful” Germany's threat to veto the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU’s border-free Schengen area.

The annual congress of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform party (ELDR) began yesterday (8 November) in Dublin with a seminar dedicated to the rise of populism in Europe, and the response which should be given to the challenge. EurActiv reports from Dublin.

Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he was "not yet convinced" by a report commissioned by nationalist leader Geert Wilders that the country would be better off if it would reintroduce the Dutch guilder, the Dutch media reported.

Sofia's chief prosecutor said the nationalist and extremist party Ataka (Attack) could be outlawed, after a series of Ataka-sponsored incidents fuelled ethnic tensions ahead of local and presidential elections on 23 October. Dnevnik, EurActiv's partner in Bulgaria reports.

Conservative parties in Europe are instituting an agenda of austerity and xenophobia, verging on a new "tyranny of the majority" in Hungary, argue leaders of the Party of European Socialists and the social democratic parties of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland.

MEPs and prominent professionals in the media world warned yesterday (3 March) that press freedom had deteriorated badly in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, but also Italy and France, and called on the EU institutions to spearhead a wide-ranging "reconquest" of basic rights across the European Union.