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Populists Seek to Break the European Union From Within
msn.com ^ | 5/25/2019 | Katrin Bennhold

Posted on 05/25/2019 10:43:28 AM PDT by rktman

The stage was set for war. Literally. Inside a small Tuscan theater with a mock-up of a World War I trench, Susanna Ceccardi, a rising star of Italy’s hard-right League party, was flanked by rival candidates for the European Parliament elections and firing angry salvos against a club she soon hopes to join. a person standing in a room: Graffiti in Brussels, where the European Commission and European Council meet.

“This Europe must be changed, this Europe of bureaucrats, do-gooders, bankers, boats of migrants, it has to be changed,” Ms. Ceccardi, the 32-year-old mayor of Cascina, Italy, roared to smatters of applause.

She is among scores of nationalist candidates from across the Continent who are vying to win an office at the heart of the European Union — so they can break it from the inside.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brexit; cascina; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; eu; euelection; italy; katrinbennhold; mediawingofthednc; nationalism; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; susannaceccardi; theresamay; unitedkingdom
Go Yoops. Downside?
1 posted on 05/25/2019 10:43:28 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

MSN is dying over this.

Do the right thing Italy!


2 posted on 05/25/2019 10:50:02 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: rktman

Damned globalists.


3 posted on 05/25/2019 10:53:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: rktman

Anything opposed to the Left is hard right or far right to them...


4 posted on 05/25/2019 10:55:08 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: rktman

Go for it, Italy. Perhaps you can teach us after you win. We’ve got a whole lot more slime here (just counting DC, not to think of CA and MA), so we’ll take all the advice we need regarding vermin removal.


5 posted on 05/25/2019 10:55:12 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rktman

The European Union has its good points, such as a stable currency and common R&D.

If it issued guidelines instead of edicts it would be far more tolerable.

Europe has housing affordability problems. Massive immigration will make them worse.


6 posted on 05/25/2019 11:07:25 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: dp0622

Viva l’Italia!


7 posted on 05/25/2019 11:11:23 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Da Coyote

We already have the recipe for this. The people just don’t seem to want to give others a chance. I can understand the Left sending the same person back, time and time again, but what they do, they do.

How often do the people of Kentucky have to hear about how China is the devil, yet their Senator is knee deep in it to the point that he’s practically married into the ChiCom party.

How many times has Graham openly supported amnesty and sided with the Dem’s and South Carolina continues to send him back. It’s only now, that he “might” be changing.

We can say that about darn near all of them.

Although time is running out. With the way that the Left is spreading around the country and backfilling their former homes with illegals and refugees, it won’t be long before the whole country is, BLUE. Not Blue, all the way around. But the states will be controlled by the densely populated cities, which in turn will change everything.

Unless DeSantis can pull something out of his a$$, next November, Florida is done. Short of the states telling the Feds, No More, I fear the amount of fraud that will take place November 2020 will end it.


8 posted on 05/25/2019 11:15:03 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: rktman

Oh my god! The proles are voting for their interests! We can’t have this! Democracy must be abolished!


9 posted on 05/25/2019 11:15:20 AM PDT by Thud
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


10 posted on 05/25/2019 11:15:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Thud

We can’t have this! Democracy must be abolished!

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Careful there. Don’t want to be sent to re-education.

Democracy Rulz! The Peons *must* vote as they are told to by their betters. Or else it’s anarchy!!

And this is also why the elected officials must be subservient to those who are born into and raised up in the New Aristocracy of the EU Bureaucracy!

Democracy doesn’t mean people thinking for themselves. Who do they think they are, Americans?


11 posted on 05/25/2019 11:19:55 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: rktman

Good article. I’ve always snickered at the EU capital being in Brussels, Belgium - also known as “France’s Welcome Mat”.


12 posted on 05/25/2019 11:22:36 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: Brian Griffin

The leftist tactics there match those here closely.


13 posted on 05/25/2019 11:23:50 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: rktman

First came BREXIT, Britain’s vote to break away from the ever-more totalitarian monster in Brussels, the European Union.

Now we have EUREXIT, as every country in Europe has ever-growing nationalist/populist parties that also want to break away from the EU.

Soon Europe’s pro-EU leaders like Macron and Merkel will be voted out of office and freedom will return to France, Germany, etc. Allons, Enfants de la Patrie le Jour de Gloire est Arrivee.


14 posted on 05/25/2019 11:33:02 AM PDT by humbleexpert
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To: rktman
"...Break the European Union From Within..."

Too late... The moslems have already won the battle for the EU...

Soon, within next 10 years, EU == caliphate...IMHO...

15 posted on 05/25/2019 11:38:41 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: rktman

When liberal fascists want to complain about democracy they call it populism.


16 posted on 05/25/2019 11:54:41 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Spok
"When liberal fascists want to complain about democracy they call it populism."

Well said.

Not sure who said it but I remember "A Europe of Nations, not a nation of Europe."

At the intersection of bureaucrats and a pile of money you inevitably find nation building. They were determined to build their very own living, growing nation critter. We subsidized it through the cold war; America was spending our men and gold on their defense while they were busily constructing their own glutinous quasi-government with all the liberal goals the riches of the continent could buy.

But the jig is up. The European populous want their nations back, and not a minute too soon.

17 posted on 05/25/2019 12:44:55 PM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: rktman
this Europe of bureaucrats, do-gooders, bankers, boats of migrants

Pretty succinct summation of Europe's problems right there.

At least Italy is waking up.


18 posted on 05/25/2019 12:54:55 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: rktman

Just like those viral video building take-downs:

Set a few small charges at critical points on the support columns, and the whole thing collapses on itself

A work of art and a thing of beauty


19 posted on 05/25/2019 2:43:12 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (Jan. 20, 2017, 12:00 PM: The End of an ERROR)
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