Europe’s far right may be advancing, but its opponents are waking up

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Even if the far right gains ground in the E.U. Parliament elections, it will lose.

Supporters of European Parliament candidate Raphaël Glucksmann wave flags during a campaign event at the Zénith Paris arena on Thursday. You could be forgiven for expecting the worst, given the alarmist punditry ahead of this week’s European Union elections.

At a campaign rally last weekend in the Nou Barris neighborhood, Javier López, a Socialist member of the European Parliament seeking reelection, hit the right-wing threat hard. “For 70 years, cooperation among the center-left, center-right and the liberals meant we were building Europe,” he told me. “This is the first time when we could see cooperation between the center-right and the far right.

José Manuel Martínez, provost of Pompeu Fabra University’s School of Management who has written widely about the E.U., noted in an interview that the far right has gained ground by “microtargeting resentments” on a range of issues, from immigration and crime to various cultural questions. E.U. ballots are the “perfect way out” for low-cost messaging.But the center-left and liberal parties are now urging middle-ground voters to send messages of their own against extremism.

 

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