Poland's taking over of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 1 January 2025 did not have an easy time for the full of Europe. erstwhile there is simply a regular Russian-Ukrainian war going on across the east borders of the Commonwealth, and far distant in the West, behind the Atlantic, Donald Trump is preparing to take power in the White House, then you cannot have the slightest illusion that this half-year will be pleasant and pleasant. Europe was found in the ticks of populists – both external populists and interior populists. Unfortunately, the interior ones who prevent Europe from having a rational relation with the external ones are a bigger problem.
Eurosceptic Population
Eurosceptic populism has been systematically strengthening throughout the European Union for more than 2 decades. We must not forget that it was his British version that led to a brexit, or de facto to remove Britain from the margins of European policy. The British Eurosceptic populists were defending fake news, manipulation, semi-truths, propaganda or, speaking the language of upright people, simple lies, told by an immanently tainted reluctance to the European Union by a tiny group of politicians, publicists and businessmen. They succeeded – with the aid of an incredibly powerful tool they are present social media – Condemn hundreds of thousands of minds with lies, which translated into millions of votes in a brexit referendum. The experience of brexit should not be underestimated, which is constantly and persistently done by populist-right politicians and publicists, convincing us that brexit was a phenomenon sui generis and no analogy should be sought between it and the risks posed by Eurosceptic populists in another Community countries. On the contrary, you gotta keep reminding about the brexette.
Eurosceptic populists build their narration into an ever-living dislike of the grey man Leviathan, who imposes his standards, principles and directives, but in everyday life he hides in hiding. For libertarians, anarchocapitalists or any liberals specified a Leviathan was always a state, but erstwhile the European Union appeared with its full powers of lawmaking and standardisation, it could at least be a part of this mistrust to the institutions. For many Brussels, it will be a form of an external over-supernaise, even a tyrant, limiting not only the individual, but besides the state, regional or local authorities. In this narrative, there will be no stories about the way of individual countries to the European Union, which usually in the past of a given country is simply a long and tiring way towards progress, improvement and belonging to an elite group of European Western nations. These Eurosceptics will not explain the complexity of the relation between national countries and EU structures, they will not explain the motivations of the regulations taken, they will not effort to supplement the Union's image with anything that represents a tangible profit and benefit for all Community citizens.
Eurosceptic populists should not be considered as a margin that would not be able to undermine the foundations of the European Union, due to the fact that it is completely different. Eurosceptic environments are increasing and becoming more powerful in subsequent European countries. It is not only tiny countries specified as Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia or Greece that experience this phenomenon. Eurosceptics are increasingly influential in large European countries, a large part of which has been a fresh avant-garde of the quest to deepen European integration. Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Italy, Romania, Sweden – everywhere Eurosceptic populists are gaining more and more voters, and in any cases even co-government, co-government or shortly have a chance to co-organise. The pandemic of populism, which prof. Wojciech Sadurski writes in his book, is not only pessimistic and 1 of the many possible paths of the European future, but is simply a real and tangible experience of most societies of modern Europe.
Sovereign populism
Eurosceptic populists dress up in the robes of the defenders of sovereignty, the actual statemen who argue external – due to the fact that Brussels is something external – tyranny of a abroad government. It is actual that they no longer mention that the main directions of improvement of the European Union are defined by the European Council, in which each country has 1 vote and the key strategical decisions are taken unanimously, respecting the sovereignty and autonomy of each State associate of the Community. Nor do they mention that the most crucial legislative decisions are taken by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament, which guarantee representation of the governments of the associate States and the democratic election of the representation of the societies of the EU States. Nor can we find any explanation of the fact that the European Union's key mechanics of action is simply a compromise that associate States work out not necessarily in front of tv screens or on the laifs available in social media. Eurosceptics disagree small in terms of their methods of action from climate negationists, who do not know the explanation and have read small at all, but can comment on any snowflake that falls on the European street. True, they usually stay silent erstwhile this snow falls in June.
The populist sovereign communicative is transplanted alive from nationalistic flyers of nineteenth-century independence, separatist and national liberation fighters. Unfortunately, their argument tends to break distant from the circumstantial geopolitical realities in which the planet was located – and consequently Europe besides – in the 21st century. To their audience they do not care to tell about the modern rivalry of the global powers in which the strongest wins, and the fight is not necessarily carried out by conventional methods, although those – which shows the example of the Russian-Ukrainian war – are inactive utilized by the powers. Of course, you can shout romanticist sovereign slogans from the position of arrogant nations numbering 5 or 10 million proud, patriotic citizens. However, erstwhile we consider the global power arrangement, both political and economic, these 5 or 10 million arrogant patriots may be the hostages of dependence on Russian gas, Chinese semiconductors, Australian butter, Qataran oil or South African coal. But can we inactive talk about sovereignty in these cases? It may simply be that conventional sovereign communicative actually misses present – or pretends to miss – actual forms and tools of tyranny, with which only larger, stronger, better organized entities can fight effectively.
These self-appointed anti-Brussels sovereigns usually have no problem bowing down to modern tyrants like Putin or Xi. They endure from Brussels directives, but someway they do not cry over the destiny of millions of political prisoners in Chinese concentration camps or Russian hack attacks, who are victims of subsequent websites of European institutions. They are pained by Brussels officials who are tracking corruption, but a system-based corruption-based Russian administration is for them a partner they talk about with admiration. Thus, Eurosceptic populists show emphatically that they want no sovereignty, but impunity! They want to build autocratic states that will rapidly make the state device a free tool, submissive and subject to the will of a populist leader or environment. There should be no illusions that Eurosceptic populists want to get free of Leviathan – they only want to replace Leviathan. They do not want to service Brussels due to the fact that they want to pay tribute to Lenna Moscow, Beijing or Tehran!
Antiliberal Populism
Most Eurosceptic populists declare themselves enemies of liberalism. any people consider economical liberalism as an exception and argue that the European Union has besides far removed from free marketplace ideals, and that is why it is advanced time to save its associate States from socialism. In addition, however, the exception in populist-eurosceptic communicative appears to be a disgusting evil that has led Europe to the edge of the abyss. The populists argue that we are drawn to this gap by all monosexual marriages, abortion and euthanasia, divorce, sexual education and contraception, equality, vaccines and wellness education, heat pumps and photovoltaics, especially electrical cars. The second become peculiarly dangerous if they are led by vegetarians or vegans. And all of this, in their opinion, is the wine of liberal euroelite, which dressed up as chadeks, environmentalists or socialists, and for money from Soros they search to depopulate European nations to settle migrants from Muslim countries in their place. If you inactive don't realize something, I encourage you to read the statements of Europopulists of all kinds, although they usually decide to change their speech and make themselves as rational guardians of home budgets and individual freedoms. But don't be fooled!
In fact, most Eurosceptic populists stick to the alleged conventional model of household and society, which is 1 in which authority, common norms, anachronistic sex roles and paternalism play a greater function in kid education and marital relations. It is actual that at times the top of the newspapers and web portals are presented with intimate photographs of selected bakers of the value of the alleged conventional family, on which curious people behave in a way not necessarily traditional. But no substance what you do, no substance what you say! The propensity of populists to stand by the conservative imagination of society – and it is crucial to remember that half a century ago populists alternatively represented leftist and progressive wings – is linked to their desire to gain control of society in the image that institutions had a 100 or even 2 100 years ago. Liberal society does not let itself to be controlled, it is diverse and unbridled in its diversity, it is attached to freedom, due to the fact that thanks to it it can carry out various visions of happiness, and populists are lost in the planet so much with this complex freedom.
Eurosceptic populists are afraid of differences, and yet modern Europe is different from what it was 50 or more 100 years ago. Raised on old textbooks, they would like the real planet to be just like those textbooks. But in all their historical education, it did not happen to them that if they had retreated in time by the 200s, 400s or 600s, the planet would have turned out to be even more different, even more different than the textbooks in the 1990s or 1980s. Does the fact that this planet utilized to look different mean it was better? For any it was most likely better, but for most – as the communicative of our continent shows, as well as the full planet – was unfortunately worse, harder, little friendly. The populists lock themselves in their idealized world, which possibly erstwhile existed in any respect, but usually only exists in their imaginations. Our planet is struggling with its – another – problems and threats. It is crucial to face these problems and threats alternatively of surviving in the illusion that it is possible to turn the stick of Vistula, Rhine, Tiber, Seine, Thames or Danube.
Tearing ticks
The planet is what it is, and our occupation is to make it better. However, it will not become specified if the only tool to accomplish this better condition is to effort to go back in time or reverse processes that have already taken place. We do not have and, as can be expected, will not shortly be able to construct a time machine, so we must deal with this planet and this Europe. However, this must be done by seeking solutions that can be implemented, although they are difficult, painful and not necessarily warrant success. However, the populists do not want to change our planet – they draw their strength from the communicative of the golden age, which has supposedly lasted recently, and the European elites and institutions of the European Union have taken distant this golden time. They only want to consolidate anti-Brussels sentiments among European societies, as it is only in this way that they can persuade the many social groups of European nations to trust and vote for them. But do Eurosceptic populists truly want to regulation European countries? Nope. Their goal is to be a strong and constantly destabilising socio-political opposition – an opposition that is not liable for anything and at all turn hits the strategy of government and community.
However, this does not change the fact that both the political elites of the European states and we, voters, are in the dangerous ticks that anti-European populists have placed on us. No substance how much we realize their tactics of destabilization and manipulation, their communicative affects us, changes our ideas about Europe and its most crucial problems, frequently creates uncertainty and doubt. Their tactics and communicative besides influence the alleged mainstream European parties, including those who so far have been regarded as pro-European – frequently and they are forced to change their viewpoint, reshape political programmes and improvement plans, including taking over any of their demands from populists. So how do you teardrop these ticks apart? Is it adequate to exposure populist lies, manipulations, half-truths and simplification at all turn? Can it let them to regulation to show how they will implement their demands and programmes? possibly if the answer to this question were simple, then democratic states would have solved this problem long ago.
It will be highly hard to teardrop apart the populist ticks in which modern Europe is found. The Polish Presidency will most likely not do so during the first half of 2025, but this problem will besides should be taken into account. besides in Poland, Eurosceptic populists enjoy considerable social support, and their communicative frequently reaches Polish homes, where they do not necessarily always meet with the right answer. Poland straight collides with Russian misinformation and influences of centres from outside the east border, which effort to destabilise the situation in the country. gathering in social media The anti-European troll is as easy as uncovering information on the fatal effects of vaccines. If we add to this the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, which has become the subject of a direct hybrid attack, then it will turn out that our Presidency has come to an highly hard time for Poland and Europe. We can surely effort to face our interior Eurosceptic populism, by exposing its misery, half-truths and manipulation, and, I think, we should do this 1 of our common goals for this six months!
