It is not surprising that now the Spanish right of unredeemed Franco origin enthusiastically joins this new European right willing to open all the doors to the extreme right.
The endorsement of the European PP for Feijóo’s offensive against Ribera plunges the EU into an unprecedented political crisis
The alliance between the European PP and the Spanish PP, in its most reduced vision, between Feijóo and Weber, has points for several pencil sharpeners. Of course, it occurred at the right time for both, but, at the same time, in the worst European scenario after the victory of the extreme right in the United States. For Weber, it is the opportunity to weaken Úrsula von der Leyen, with an eye on the next federal elections in Germany; For Feijóo, expanding the playing field of the Valencia disaster is his only opportunity to not be another victim of the once again poor capacity and demonstrated irresponsibility of his political formation.
In all possible analyses, it is not advisable to lose sight of one important fact: among the reasons argued by historians, the European integration project was singularly inspired by the firm intention that the extreme right-wing fascists and Nazis could never again lead us to continental suicide. . This has been the case to this day.
It is true that the vicarious harassment of the government chaired by Pedro Sánchez in the person of Teresa Ribera has a mediocre air of revenge –Weber does not forget the humiliation to which he was subjected by Sánchez–, also of an expression of impotence and, of course, of Weber’s use of the situation. They agree in a mundane aspect, Feijóo remains eternally frustrated for not being president, Weber for not being president of the European Commission.
Both play for their own sake, but, in addition, they have no qualms about opening the doors to the extreme right in the institutions – Feijóo and Weber also agree on this – in Europe and in their respective countries, something unusual in the European right until now. . Its eventual blowing up of the pacts affects the European “reconstruction” itself, which if it does not progress in its political integration will end up mired in the contagious Trumpist madness.
It is not surprising that now the Spanish right of unredeemed Franco origin enthusiastically joins this new European right willing to open all the doors to the extreme right.
If Adenauer, Schuman, Monnet, De Gasperi, all conservative politicians who suffered totalitarianism – with some reservations – were among us, they would not recognize the new European right, particularly the German one. A certain way of seeing that project of unity of the fifties of the last century affirms that it was, in addition, a redemption of the rights that, especially in Vichy France, Italy and Germany, had not given everything they could to confront to the advent of fascism and Nazism.
Building a new Europe was that occasion, it was a necessity imposed, furthermore, to contain the advance of communism, and this is how it has been functioning in a kind of pact between the right and social democracy. The post-war right-wingers wanted to redeem themselves before the people and abhorred the extreme right-wing and everything close to them. Of course it was a closed project, there was no room then, for the same reason, for an invitation to the extreme right regimes that remained in Europe, be it Franco’s Spain and its extreme right, or Portugal and its own.
It is not surprising, therefore, that now the Spanish right of unredeemed Franco origin enthusiastically joins this new European right willing to open all the doors to the European and overseas extreme right. Without a doubt, this is the suicide of the Europe of its conservative founding fathers.
These are not good times for democracy, once again in danger: the virus has not been eliminated, it was still latent. In the game of power, the right never wants to lose and when it does, it is neither patient – a democratic virtue – nor willing to accept the rules. Perhaps we are witnessing a new, as at the beginning of the last century, global right-wing revolution. If this is the case, as the attitude of politicians like Feijóo or Weber seems to demonstrate, it will be that they are going back to their old ways.
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