I mean, EU expansion was arguably too quick, but as a western European I’m really not going to lecture eastern europe on democracy.
Off the top of my head: Wilders and Baudet; De Winter; AfD; Le Pen’s party loans being bought up by a Russian company with ties to the defense industry; Salvini, Meloni, Berlusconi, the Mafia and bungabunga; Farage, Johnson, Cambridge analytica, Russian press barons and Londongrad; the Denmark Democrats, the Sweden Democrats; Spain’s Francoist history, seperatism, apologists, and Vox; an Austrian foreign minister dancing with Putin at her wedding; the former German chancellor Schroeder’s ties to Russian energy companies, respected experts who turn out to be on Putin’s payroll, Ostalgie and AfD, Merkel and Dieselgate; Cyprus, Russians buying passports, Russian owned bank accounts; Malta and murdered journalists; etc. etc. etc.
I mean, EU expansion was arguably too quick, but as a western European I’m really not going to lecture eastern europe on democracy.
Off the top of my head: Wilders and Baudet; De Winter; AfD; Le Pen’s party loans being bought up by a Russian company with ties to the defense industry; Salvini, Meloni, Berlusconi, the Mafia and bungabunga; Farage, Johnson, Cambridge analytica, Russian press barons and Londongrad; the Denmark Democrats, the Sweden Democrats; Spain’s Francoist history, seperatism, apologists, and Vox; an Austrian foreign minister dancing with Putin at her wedding; the former German chancellor Schroeder’s ties to Russian energy companies, respected experts who turn out to be on Putin’s payroll, Ostalgie and AfD, Merkel and Dieselgate; Cyprus, Russians buying passports, Russian owned bank accounts; Malta and murdered journalists; etc. etc. etc.