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Yellow Vests Escalate, Experts Warn Populism DESTROYING The EU

Tim Pool Daily News

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Politics, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Yellow Vests Escalate, Experts Warn Populism DESTROYING The EU. As we enter "Acte 11" of the Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) protest in France the question arises as to whether this is the beginning of the end of the European Union.Many experts, even George Soros, have said we are witnessing the collapse of the European union before our very eyes as populism takes hold in several EU member states.The narrative was made ever more dire when 30 historians and Nobel laureates penned an op-ed for numerous papers begging people to reject the populist narrative.But with the rise of the yellow vests protest and the expansion of nationalist parties one can only assume the experts are right and we are seeing the beginning of the end of the EU Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Yellow Vests protest has kicked off its 11th weekend in France, and some of the images

0:05.5

are pretty devastating.

0:07.3

We've seen cars on fire, and in one instance, the protestors almost pulled a cop out of

0:11.4

his vehicle.

0:12.7

Now many people believe that populism is a really, really bad thing for Europe.

0:16.6

We recently saw an op-ed where a bunch of scholars and Nobel laureates wrote that, effectively,

0:22.0

Europe is collapsing before our eyes due to populism.

0:24.8

I'm not trying to say that the Yellow Vests is necessarily entirely a populist movement,

0:29.7

but many people have likened it to that, so I had to wonder if what we're seeing from

0:33.8

the Yellow Vests resisting Macron's policy and his internationalist policy could this

0:38.8

be a sign that populism is rising up and the common folk, the middle class, are refusing

0:44.8

to abide by the rules of the European Union.

0:47.1

Could this spell the end of the European Union?

0:50.1

At least many scholars think so.

0:51.9

So today, let's take a look at the latest news coming out of the Yellow Vests protests,

0:55.7

and then look at some of the commentary from the experts as to why this could be really,

1:00.3

really bad news for the EU.

1:02.2

But before we get started, make sure you follow me on mines.com slash Timcast.

1:06.6

Recently, it was announced that YouTube was changing its algorithm, and now people are

1:11.2

saying they no longer see certain videos in their feeds.

1:14.6

So as a sort of backup, I've got another channel where I'll actually posting other content,

1:19.2

and that's going to be on mines.

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