In Europe: “Everywhere, right-wing populists peddle simple recipes."

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They are always the same. They suggest that only the borders be closed and the euro be abandoned in order to keep out refugees and resolve the crisis of the common currency.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110513-35003.html

“Europe – for some it is a promise, a dream. For others, and their number is growing alarmingly these days, it is a shock structure, a forced community, a source of unreasonable demands.”

The centre-left Süddeutsche Zeitung argued that the EU has moved so rapidly towards integration that pro-Europe and anti-Europe factions have been put on an epic collision course, magnified by the EU’s current crises.

The left-wing Frankfurter Rundschau wrote that European governments were recklessly sacrificing ideals for the sake of domestic politics. “Two things are symbolic of Europe and facilitate the everyday life of citizens immensely: the euro and the right to travel freely. The euro is threatening to implode as the single currency. The Schengen Agreement still has a long way to go. Nevertheless, it is infuriating how recklessly European governments play with these achievements for domestic policy. Worse, the community lets its agenda on sensitive questions be dictated by right-wing populists.”