‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says

Voting patterns and polling data from the past year suggest the EU is moving towards a more ethnic, closed-minded and xenophobic understanding of “Europeanness” that could ultimately challenge the European project, according to a major report.

The report, by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), identifies three key “blind spots” across the bloc and argues their intersection risks eroding or radically altering EU sentiment.

The report, shared exclusively with the Guardian, argues that the obvious “whiteness” of the EU’s politics, low engagement by young people and limited pro-Europeanism in central and eastern Europe could mould a European sentiment at odds with the bloc’s original core values.

  • @FatherGascown
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    1 day ago

    Secularism as a European value already excludes anything Islam-related from the picture. As it should be, fuck Islam.

    • @[email protected]
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      -311 hours ago

      Yeah, fuck the religion of 2 billion people in the world… Also look at our great secularism, that is forbidding women what to wear in places like France and Germany and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians who have the wrong religion or skin colour in the past decades and millions in the past century. What a great civilatory achievement!

        • @[email protected]
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          38 hours ago

          You just called a quarter of the world population “dogs”. Fascism is truly alive and well in Europe.

          • @FatherGascown
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            -16 hours ago

            Keep using words without knowing their meaning. Typical 'murican. “Everybody I don’t agree with is a fascist, although I have no idea what a fascist is”. Idiots.