Fortunately, none of the groups don't quite work like parties (yet). Huge difference from country to country, some eastern european social democrats are more nationalistic than our right-wing parties, our Moderate Party (who are like the LibDems or something) together with die hard anti-abortion Maltan Christian Dmeocrats and Hungary's Fidesz, nationalists in countries like the Netherlands are socially liberal, etc.PaleRider wrote:I would be really torn as a European voter between the EPP and ALDE
Elf wrote:PaleRider wrote:I would be really torn as a European voter between the EPP and ALDE
Fortunately, none of the groups don't quite work like parties (yet).
Like our countries in general, the political parties affiliated with each group are way to different to function as single parties. Some of the socialist parties in the east are more nationalist than our nationalist parties. You'd have Fidesz in Hungary or democracy beating Spanish right-wingers, or Berlusconi, in the same political party as Merkel or social liberals like Sweden's Moderate party. Doesn't work.GreekIdiot wrote:Elf wrote:Fortunately, none of the groups don't quite work like parties (yet).
Not necessarily that being a good thing.
There's definitely going to be a problem between mis/disinformation and issues of freedom of speech this time.
edit; No "won't vote" option? How biased and targeted.
It strikes me as strange how the AfD seems to be going far to the right, ie. Front National-esque, Putinist etc. I would have thought that Germany of all countries should have a firm breeding ground for a pro-Western Eurosceptic/anti-establishment movement which wants to protect liberal democracy, secularism and the German constitution...Alain Delors wrote:I guess this time around I'll have to take a pass on voting for the party I've been a loyal member of for years in the European elections - I'm not gonna assist that Europhile extremist Guy Verhofstadt in his bid for Commission president (and it does look like ALDE is poised for some big gains). I'm obviously also not going to vote for the CDU either, since prospective EPP Spitzenkandidat Barnier is by no means better. I'd like to strengthen the ECR, but its German affiliate (the AfD break-away "Liberal-Conservative Reformers", which includes my favorite German MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel) is pathetically weak. I might actually end up voting AfD - they have their fair bunch of crazies,but assuming that Jörg Meuthen - more of a Eurorealist - remains in the EP I'd like to strengthen his hand.
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