The (ex-Goldman Sachs) American leader of the European Far Right!
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon hailed election results for the European Parliament on Monday and said the idea of further European Union integration was “dead” after gains by far-right nationalist parties.
Bannon, who has sought to build links with European populist parties, also urged them to get over their differences and form a “supergroup” in the parliament in the next month.
“The integration movement which is what the EU has always been about is dead,” Bannon told AFP in an interview in his 5,400-euro-a-night (6,000-dollar) suite at Le Bristol hotel in Paris.
Read more at http://www.defenddemocracy.press/bannon-says-eu-integration-dead-after-parliament-election/
A crushing defeat of the “radical Left”
By Klaus Dräger
Note: What follows is not a thorough analysis of what happened in the last European elections, but just a first look at the results based on politico website and its exit polls
For the results see here: https://www.politico.eu/2019-
You also may wish to check the results country by country – which is available there.According to that projection, the GUE/NGL (concerning their current composition with Syriza etc.) will be down from 52 MEP’s to 38. Even that should be taken with a ‘grain’ of salt: e.g. the Spanish Unidas Podemos list (6 MEPs) has Greens from Catolonia and Equo on its slate, who might choose to affialiate themselves with the Green group in the EP.
