Europe's far-right: Tempting partners for conservatives? | To the point

Is Europe on the verge of a major shift? Will supporters of Vladimir Putin and friends of China soon have more power in the European Parliament?

According to polls ahead of the European elections, right-wing populists and nationalists are attracting more voters.

But Europe’s far-right is also seeing divisions, between the “Alternative for Germany”, AfD, and the French National Rally Party around Marine Le Pen. How extreme do EU voters want the union to be?

What alliances are being forged? Ursula von der Leyen, the Conservative President of the EU Commission, is openly courting the votes of the Italian head of government Giorgia Meloni and her ultra-right “Fratelli d'Italia”.

On To the Point, we ask: “Europe's far-right: Tempting partners for conservatives”?

Our guests:

Nadine Lindner is the Berlin correspondent for Germany’s Deutschlandfunk, specialized in East German politics and the AfD Party.

Michaela Küfner is DW News’ Chief Political Editor

Burkhard Birke is a freelance journalist. He has previously worked as a correspondent in Paris and Brussels.

Chapters:

01:30 What did the traditional parties do wrong?

02:30 People are looking for direction; they feel left alone

03:00 There are two groups on the far-right. Will they merge after the EU elections?

05:00 The upcoming EU elections are crucial

05:30 Will the far-right become even more mainstream after the European elections?

06:30 AfD leadership is under fire

07:30 There is no tumbling in AfD support in the polls

09:20 The AfD is in “panic mode” and publicly discredited

10:30 Voters are looking for a more “authoritarian style” of politics

11:40 The AfD is moving even more to the right

13:10 Will the firewall between Conservatives and AfD remain?

15:20 Why is Marine Le Pen rejecting the AfD?

16:13 The AfD is not useful for Marine Le Pen

16:40 Is Giorgia Meloni pro-European?

18:40 Ursula von der Leyen seems to be reluctant to cooperate with Marine Le Pen

20:00 Ursula von der Leyen’s “Green Deal” has lost its meaning

21:20 In the EU, compromises are a must

23:00 It will be more difficult to govern the EU after the EU elections

24:00 The EU urgently needs a reform

25:00 The upcoming elections will also be a national referendum

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[HappyGlmre]

Hilarious how normal people are now "far right". We all see what your agenda is here.

[lazynow]

WoW, not wanting to have unlimited illegal immigrants come to your nation and live off of social benefits....is far

[VictorLejarsa]

How infantile calling people far-right… this is getting boring. You are making this term empty now

[douglas]

When the far left is allowed to go as far as it can, the political pendulum swings to other side. Nothing new here…

[SabineWald_NowHere]

Let Common Sense Party win. Enough of far out left and their illegals.

[Animodeus]

The world run in equilibrium
The far right is getting popular because now the Europen is far left

[daylightmoon]

The issue is simply immigration. The EU press should not underestimate what they call "the far right." The AFD is the de facto leader of the "right" in Germany. The "far right" in Europe will cooperate with the AFD in the end. Also, the right in Europe is not at all fragmented. Their demands and goals are the same throughout Europe

[femmevalerie_]

This is not about left vs. right. It is about globalism vs. sovereignism.

[kertparkes]

The price you pay for cutting education budgets.

[SadisNic]

Can we just remind ourselves that the Mussolini's fascists got to their position because the conservatives in Italy sided with them.

[Samirustem]

Italian PM have kind face and her talks are always ok. Cant really fit her with french and german crazies

[hiroshi]

I have to stop watching DW. Sorry, but the daily "far right" hysteria is tiresome.

[Unknown-jyku]

Poppet dw what is a deffinition of far right ?

[yotrader]

Are they Far Right, or are you Far Left? It's all relative to where you stand. I'm not European, so I always felt Western Europe to be socially too progressive or too Far Left.

[JsckSzx]

Far right? you will never see or hear dw utter the phrase far left. This is because this is where they sit. So everyone is right of them. But to push their ideology further everyone is therefore referred to as far right.

[gaborrajnai]

Why is your commentsection swarming with British trolls? They got their Brexit, arent they content?

[elmoo]

Where's the "far left"? We want to hear about the "far left". Please do a story on the "far left". We want to hear from the far left extremists.

[sotonteve]

EU has usual, a hillary clinton style EU, blaming the bernie sanders types, when you end up with the donald trump types.








Told you so, but you didn't want to know.

[live_free_or_perish]

That was really interesting. I started to follow global politics after the war in Ukraine started. Like most Americans, I had no idea what was happening politically in other countries

[emanueledes]

That alliance is IMPOSSIBLE, and wouldn't even have a majority. The majority at the EP will be again: EPP, S&D, Renew.