Author: Tang Shaocheng
A few days ago, the French President Macron voted for the media, emphasizing the concept of European rejuvenation, which is unusual.Macron proposed the establishment of the European Democratic Protection Agency to fight against cyber attacks and prevent foreign governments from gold aid against European political parties.He also proposed to set up a joint border police and the European asylum office, and gave birth to a defense treaty to achieve the purpose of protecting value and safety at the same time, and supporting Africa development in order to reduce refugees.
It can be seen that the European (alliance) is indeed facing a great development crisis, which is mainly the harm caused by Brexit and populism.In particular, the Brexit limit of Brexit was at the end of March, and the European Parliament will also select new members in May. The nationalist parties will be bullish, which will cause high concerns of the outside world.
Affected by the financial tsunami since 2008, coupled with dissatisfaction with the domestic and EU elite systems, the internal open society has not yet matured, further intensifying the anger of nationalism, leading to the rise of the east of Eastern European nationals.Hungarian Prime Minister Outan also made Hungarian a Christian non -liberal democratic country, and rejected diverse society by modifying the constitution, combating justice, anti -homosexuality, restricted media and freedom of speech, leading to EU sanctions.However, the case must also be decided by the EU summit to decide. The probability of passing is not high, so that the European Union is in the predicament of the democratic value of guardians.
Polish anti -democracy tends to be too much.Due to the adoption of the law of the legal and justice party in governing in the Parliament, the retirement age of the Supreme Court judges from the age of 70 to the age of 65. As a result, 40 % of the current judges must retire.The ruling party violates judicial independence.Not only did the European Executive Committee send a lot of letter warnings, but even European courts are now involved in it.
This populist wildfire is also burned to Ukraine. In addition to the war between the Udong region and Russia, coupled with the current poor political achievements, the internal corruption of Ukraine is severe.The most popular is a comedian in the entertainment industry, which surprises all parties.
In Western Europe, the Italian Civil Party of the Five -Star Sports Party and the Alliance Party won half of the seats in the Congress election last March and successfully formed the cabinet after 3 months of noise, which means that Italy may eventually go to Brexit because the past governmentThe effects of the puppets adopted were not effective, which caused many people to blame the European Union.The five -star party's founding veteran is also a comedian, which shows the influence of populism.
Italy currently has a debt of about NT $ 80 trillion, the highest in the euro zone, and investors in various countries have begun to worry.EU member states have repeatedly exploded the Brexit effects in recent years, including Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, and France. If it follows the Brexit after Brexit, it will undoubtedly cause a fatal blow to the EU.
Looking at the United States again, due to Trump's great controversy, the Democratic Party's number of people in the 2020 increased in 2020. At the recent campaign conference, 77 -year -old senator Sanders lift up the whirlwind of the last election, mainlyBecause of its eye -catching politics, including national health insurance, minimum hourly salary of 15 US dollars, and free public universities, etc., it has won the support of middle and lower classes, especially young liberal voters, and has been considered by some discussions as a sign of socialism.
Observing the distribution of votes in Sanders's 2016 party primary elections and Trump elections, the two have a very high overlap.Although the two are divided into the two extremes of the political spectrum, they have the same anti -system demands, which has an excellent attractiveness for people who have been ignored for a long time.
The current most important development indicator of the European Union is the European Parliament election in May this year.However, this election is still guided by the interests of various countries, rather than the European Union's overall policy, and will definitely become a test of the EU itself.In particular, the European Union spent 10 years to deal with the European debt crisis and fought with foreign refugees for 3 years. In addition, Trump strongly supported the European populist parties, hoping to further paralyze the EU, and sign a bilateral trade agreement with various countries, and it is even more.Lane of the EU.
In short, the populist ghost is hovering over European and American countries, and various forces are rolling each other, which will be a severe challenge for Western civilization.
(The author is a researcher at the International Research Center of the National University of Political Science)
