There are a lot of unhappy people in Europe who could take out their unhappiness on the bureaucrats in Brussels this weekend.
In voting that began Thursday and concludes Sunday, voters in the 27 EU nations will elect a total of 720 members of the European Parliament, or MEP’s.
The news website Politico has labeled this “Europe’s Trump Moment.”
One Dutch voter said, “People are fed up with the system at the moment, so things must be changed.”
European Union elites are nervous, and for good reason.
Belgian European Parliament member Guy Verhofstadt said, “I think it will be an existential fight, an existential fight against those who want less Europe. They (the Right) are a recipe for a weak Europe. And a weak Europe will be destroyed.”
The European Parliament election is seen as a referendum on both the EU and national governments. And the growing discontent in the European Union has more and more citizens voting for change.
Right-wing parties are already in power or supporting governments in 7 out of the EU’s 27 nations. But they have also become a political force in almost every European nation.
Anti-immigration firebrand Geert Wilders is also about to take over the Dutch
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