The (political) pushback against Ukrainian refugees is peeping its ugly head out of the political swamp
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I fully expect the far-right groups in Europe to make xenophobic propaganda against Ukrainian refugees. That's not really in doubt. Nor is there any doubt that for decades they have cultivated a constituency for it that is a significant part of the electorate in many countries. The 2015-16 refugee crisis that saw 1.4 million refugees enter the EU in those two years provided a big example of how that works. And, unfortunately, the center-right and center-left parties were at best ineffectual in countering that agitation. (To the extent they even tried at all.) So the real question this time around is whether those parties will handle this refugee crisis differently, or whether they will make lazy compromises with the far-right.
The (political) pushback against Ukrainian refugees is peeping its ugly head out of the political swamp
The (political) pushback against Ukrainian…
The (political) pushback against Ukrainian refugees is peeping its ugly head out of the political swamp
I fully expect the far-right groups in Europe to make xenophobic propaganda against Ukrainian refugees. That's not really in doubt. Nor is there any doubt that for decades they have cultivated a constituency for it that is a significant part of the electorate in many countries. The 2015-16 refugee crisis that saw 1.4 million refugees enter the EU in those two years provided a big example of how that works. And, unfortunately, the center-right and center-left parties were at best ineffectual in countering that agitation. (To the extent they even tried at all.) So the real question this time around is whether those parties will handle this refugee crisis differently, or whether they will make lazy compromises with the far-right.