Polling in all 27 EU member states, combined with modelling of how national parties performed in past European parliament elections, shows radical right parties are on course to finish first in nine countries including Austria, France and Poland. Projected second- or third-place finishes in another nine countries, including Germany, Spain, Portugal and Sweden, could for the first time produce a majority rightwing coalition in the parliament of Christian Democrats, conservatives and radical right MEPs.
The authors called on policymakers to examine the trends that are driving current voting patterns in Europe and to develop clear narratives that address the necessity of a global Europe in an increasingly fraught and dangerous geopolitical climate.
I can only speak for myself now. Perhaps this much about me: I am a data protection-loving communist. As such, I am bothered by unjust laws in the EU such as data retention and the constant feeling that we are ultimately powerless here because no matter what we do, our future is decided in Brussels/Strasbourg. Germany in particular tends to deport politicians who have proven to be the enemy of the free web in this country to the European Parliament (Axel Voss, Ursula von der Leyen, etc.).
You know that the EU is the reason why Germany had to repeal and repeal again their Mass Data Retention Laws https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/bundesverwaltungsgericht-vorratsdatenspeicherung-rechtswidrig-100.html