‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says
Voting patterns and polling data from the past year suggest the EU is moving towards a more ethnic, closed-minded and xenophobic understanding of “Europeanness” that could ultimately challenge the European project, according to a major report.
The report, by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), identifies three key “blind spots” across the bloc and argues their intersection risks eroding or radically altering EU sentiment.
The report, shared exclusively with the Guardian, argues that the obvious “whiteness” of the EU’s politics, low engagement by young people and limited pro-Europeanism in central and eastern Europe could mould a European sentiment at odds with the bloc’s original core values.
Yep, this is my best guess for the EU, sadly. It will keep being democratic and united, but adopt a more East Asian-style attitude to the rest of the world in the process. Oh well, hopefully we can pick up the internationalist slack in Canada.
Meanwhile, the US is probably going to explode one way or the other.
Canada has our own issues with national identity, and it’s only being exacerbated by the weak policy making that is doing very little to stem the tide of irresponsible immigration that only serves the ruling class by growing their real estate portfolio’s worth. Between corruption at the highest level in our Federal government, and the Trumpian brainrot that PP and people like Jordan Peterson and Maxime Bernier are more than willing to incept feeble-minded Canadians with, we ain’t picking up shit for slack.
I mean, if we could build some more damn houses, immigration has been unambiguously great for our economy and general demographics, and Anglo Canadian identity was never a real thing to start with.