Tankevækkende indlæg i Guardian, der blandt andet reflekterer over EU chefs Junckers årlige tale:
”In his preposterously titled “state of the union address” – a term plagiarised from the democratically-elected United States presidency – Mr Juncker observed that it was splits in the union that “left space for galloping populism” and, he added, “we cannot accept that as populism doesn’t solve problems, on the contrary it creates problems”.
This analysis is exactly the opposite of the truth. It is not the splits that have produced populism, it is populism (by which he means, public anger) that produced the splits. Differences of opinion and conflicting interests do not, in themselves, give rise to the kind of neo-fascist movements which are stalking the streets of once-liberal European capitals like Berlin, where the far Right (AfD) is likely today to get its first seats in the regional parliament since Germany’s reunification in 1990. It is the suppression of disagreement and difference that impels people into volatile extremism.”
