Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven is pushing ahead with an open border policy, while right-wing parties across the EU are sounding alarm bells about the devastating consequences of uncontrolled migration. Speaking to Sputnik, Bill Ravotti, moderator of the V4 Report, explained how the rise of the New Right may alter the status quo in the bloc.
The Swedish government is up in arms about European nations which are reluctant to open their doors to the constant flow of migrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. However, according to Bill Ravotti, moderator of the V4 Report, political analyst and republican nominee for US Congress 1996 and 1998, Stockholm’s attitude should sound alarm bells for European nation-states.
Commenting on the issue, the analyst opined that “Lofven is a disaster”.The New Right Now Stand in the Way of the EU Common Immigration Policy
Still, he did not rule out that the Eurocrats would try with “various useless schemes, such as migrant quotas or trying to harmonise ‘upwards’ the benefits for migrants so a state like Hungary would be forced to offer the same rich benefits as Germany or Sweden”. “We are already starting to see this with Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and others”, he said. “In fact, eight of the twelve Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) nation states that comprise the Three Seas Initiative did not sign the UN Compact, which was a huge defeat for Berlin and Brussels. And we also see new parties of the right emerging in Finland, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands.”
“The V4 Report believes the emerging New Right will be much different than the movements of the past, lead by [Marine] Le Pen, [Geert] Wilders and others, who did not possess the influence or firepower of a Salvini, Orban, PiS or FPO”, he said.
Ravotti suggested that the “Big Four” of Matteo Salvini, Viktor Orban, the PiS of Poland and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) “should be the cornerstones and main faces of this new alliance”.Referring to the upcoming May elections to the European Parliament, the analyst explained that the New Right would have to build “the foundation in order to grow the coalition into the largest or one of the two dominant groups in the Parliament 3-5 years down the road”.
“These alliances will require time to build and strengthen”, he foresees. “It may even require longer negotiations for the mentioned players to organise. Time is of the essence, but focusing on short term results only may diminish the long-term quality of the group”.
Ravotti believes that the main battle “must be centred around those promoting the super-state in Brussels (Macron, Berlin, Verhofstadt, the EU Commission, etc.) versus the forces defending the European nation states (Salvini, Orban, PiS, FPO)”. He stressed that never before the EU had faced “this type of powerful dynamic that we see gaining strength today”.
“Ultimately, something will have to give [in], either the EU super-state as we know it or the European nation state”, he pointed out. “We believe there will eventually be a split and the EU will be much smaller… maybe France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Benelux club and a few others of the West EU bloc. Central-Eastern Europe and perhaps Italy will go their own way. The cultural differences are just too deep”.