The results of the European Parliament elections saw voters – in Germany and France, especially – largely reject socialism and left-wing policies.
Experts who weighed in on the election told Fox News Digital the results should put President Biden’s administration on notice. Both European and American voters largely care about the same issues, namely mass migration and border security, they said, and the EU elections showed voters taking a stand against leftist agendas that have come to rise on both sides of the Atlantic.
“I think the Biden White House should be very nervous about what’s happening across the Atlantic because Europeans are voting on exactly the same issues American voters are voting on as well. The biggest single issue in Europe right now is mass migration and the lack of border security. It’s the number one issue in America,” Gardiner said. “What you saw in Europe is an effective rejection of liberal left-wing ruling elites, exemplified, of course, by the Biden White House. And so Biden is very similar to Chancellor Schultz in Germany, very similar to Emmanual Macron in France. Biden is a, you know, liberal, progressive, elitist, out of touch with the vast majority of ordinary people. And so, Joe Biden should be a very nervous man right now watching what’s happening in Europe.”
“I didn’t like the designation of far right. Because if you look at voter concerns in Europe, and you know, support for parties on the right and across the Atlantic, these are exactly the same concerns that U.S. voters have as well,” Gardiner said. “European voters who are rejecting open borders are rejecting the extreme green agenda, rejecting wokeism, they don’t want high crime. They don’t like the Islamification of Europe. You know, at the end of the day, the vast majority of Europeans who voted for parties on the right, they’re not extremists. They simply just want things changed at home. They don’t like, you know, the left wing socialist agenda.”
“Political changes in Europe can have a significant impact on America as well. You look at the Brexit vote in 2016, in the UK ahead of, you know, Donald Trump’s election victory that year. What happens in Europe does matter in America as well, because at the end of the day, European and American electorates are not vastly different in terms of what they care about,” Gardiner observed. “They overwhelmingly do not like, you know, the radical, you know, green agenda. And they don’t like, you know, wokeism and the left’s attempt to subvert Western culture and civilization.”
Matt Mowers, a founding board member of the EU-US Forum, said the non-profit conducted a survey in May that found a majority of EU voters “do not think the EU headed in the right direction under its current left wing leadership.” The survey also found “that Europeans have serious concerns about illegal immigration, skyrocketing cost of living, increased government censorship, and excessive regulations,” he said.
“The EU election results prove our data was right on the money,” Mowers, who served in former President Trump’s administration, told Fox News Digital. “Europeans are tired of the status quo at the EU. Voters have sent a decisive message to the globalist elites in Brussels: Europeans do not want the far-Left agenda pushed on them for decades. Change is coming.”
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