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#LondonCalling: Denying the Far Right at the EU @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#LondonCalling: Denying the Far Right at the EU @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-european-union-refuses-to-save-itself-elections-voters-climate-migration-the-right-7ce2b2a7

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:05.9

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

0:10.2

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

0:27.1

travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is CBS Island in the world. I'm John Bachelor. To London, to Joseph Sternberg,

0:39.7

member of the editorial Van der Leyen to continue as the president of the European Commission, which is the executive

0:54.9

arm of the European Parliament.

0:58.0

You will recall that recently European Parliament had surprising votes seeing the rise of numbers for parties associated with what is called in Europe the far right.

1:09.0

At the same time there was a decline in numbers for the parties associated with the left.

1:15.8

Miss Vandelline, however, from Joe's presentation in his column, is continuing as if nothing changed, puzzling.

1:25.0

So a very good evening to you.

1:26.7

Nothing changed.

1:27.7

That is true in numbers that I read once.

1:30.2

It might be changing.

1:31.7

There might be some details here at the numbers I've missed but as I recall

1:35.9

that the so-called center of the European Parliament has 400 seats which overwhelms the far right combinations.

1:45.0

There's somewhere in the 150s.

1:46.8

I don't remember all the numbers.

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