“A hard-right tidal wave is about to hit the EU,” warned former prime minister Gordon Brown in the Guardian this week. “Ultra-nationalist demagogues and populist-nationalists are now leading the polls in Italy, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia,” he continued, ominously claiming that “these factions are forcing the hand of the traditional centre-right parties — which, one by one, are capitulating to ever more extreme anti-immigration, anti-trade and anti-environment positions.”
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