Tag: Populism

• Monday, May 20th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Chancellor Merkel says populist movements want to destroy Europe core values

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for Europe to push back against far-right parties, saying populist movements wanted to destroy core European values such as fighting corruption and protecting minorities.

• Monday, May 20th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Thousands of Italians flood Milan in support of populist leader Salvini and to fight Brussels

  

  Thousands of Italians turned out in Milan on Saturday to support their “captain” Matteo Salvini, the far-right leader they see as taking their battle against the European Union to Brussels. Ahead of May 26 European parliamentary elections, “we want to be an Italian country, with an Italian currency, we want to go back to what we were before, with our dignity and our independence.”

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  What could dilute the EU, populism or the lack of a unifying external threat?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - For the second time in a month, a member country of the European Union has NOT voted a populist into power. Could it be that the populist wave has broken?

• Thursday, December 6th 2018 - 09:28 UTC

  Populism is not an ideology, it's a political technique which thrives on angry people

  

  Five of the world’s largest democracies now have populist governments, claimed The Guardian last week, and proceeded to name four: the United States, India, Brazil and the Philippines. Which is the fifth? At various points it name-checks Turkey, Italy and the United Kingdom, but it never becomes clear which. (And by the way, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is not a populist. He’s just a nationalist.)

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:27 UTC

  Bolsonaro will not return Venezuelans: “they are fleeing a dictatorship supported by Lula and Dilma”

  

  President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said his government would not send back the tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have sought refuge in Brazil from the economic breakdown in their populist ruled homeland.

• Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Populist League advances in north Italy ousting entrenched center left coalition

  

  The right-wing League has won control of the northern Italian province of Trento, ousting the center-left coalitions that have ruled for decades, in the latest breakthrough by the anti-immigrant party.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Paulo Guedes the ultra-liberal economic advisor of an ultra-populist nationalist

  

  After getting out of its most severe recession in history in 2017, Brazil remains in a state of economic malaise, notching up a mere 1% of growth last year, with public debt forecast to snowball from 77% of GDP to 140% by 2030, according to the World Bank.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  EU pledges more funds to combat populism and migrant crisis

  

  The European Union has proposed spending more on Italy and other member countries hit by the economic and migrant crises, but less on increasingly wealthy eastern states like Poland. The European Commission, the bloc's executive arm, proposed the regional shift in the “cohesion” portion of the post-2020 multi-year budget as Italy faces political chaos.

• Thursday, February 1st 2018 - 11:05 UTC

  Opposition denies pre-agreement in the dialogue

  

  The pro-government representative in the negotiations in Dominican Republic, Jorge Rodriguez announced that a pre-agreement had been reached and that he was almost certain that on Wednesday the talks would come to fruition. However, the opposition came to deny it.

• Thursday, January 25th 2018 - 10:06 UTC

  EU leaders warn on nationalism and call for global cooperation ahead of Trump's speech

  

  European leaders warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday against a return to nationalism, with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel calling for more global cooperation to harness the forces of globalization.