the mapped out shows the geopolitical reality. beyond the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube the this is focus on europe. i'm lara. babel a lot. welcome. europeans will be voting and parliamentary elections in june and populist right when parties are projected to make historic gains. so what has prompted the shift among voters, and what could it mean for the future of the european union? find out on this special edition about the european parliament elections. germany's a f. d party has been pulling high nationally, and they're expected to increase their number of seats in the european parliament.

this is despite a string of fresh scandals and a german court classifying them as potentially extreme. donado correspond, is alarmed. she's founded as citizens initiative to counter the rise of the right, which they believe is eroding democracy. but in her village of dubin and the state of facts, any their calls for tolerance and the quality seem to be falling on deaf ears. activists are taking to the streets for democracy in tolerance, in the small section town of do that. and then the think of it all granny's against the right a few times, almost as this about all of the other people in the values we would need more about freedom, the quality, freedom of thought. i had i did that. so i left in recent elections about 30 percent of the voters chose the a f d. a party who sex any branch has been designated as of right wing extremist by germany is domestic intelligence agency, the f d lashes out against other german party denies human cause,

climate change and campaigns against l. g b t q rights and refugees is coming. oh, i can assure you that perk of me, pets girls publicly supported dogs and other good for nothings will not secure our prosperity, economic growth, and the social state prison. the grant is against the right or watching this right word. surge with great concern to the head of the european elections. they want to talk to local aisd the voters. they've got coffee and cake and information about the right wing populace. that's via and palm if we can give out our information and materials to a few people so that later this evening some might think it over in private and possibly realize, oh, i didn't know that. that would be the greatest thing, was the 3 of those, the horseman founded the group and do then about 3 months ago, after journalist reported on a right wing meeting near berlin, there

a if the politicians right wing extremists and some conservative politicians are set to have planned reporting, millions of immigrants he todd several months and it's hard me. i think the fact that such a discussion happened was shocking and deeply disturbing english and convinced me something had to be done. some were supposed to come up to the group, started out with 18 female activists. now there are 41 they want to learn how to count or right wing populist arguments at practice sessions like these. almost all of them are confronted with racism and extremism on a daily basis and workplaces sports clubs and elsewhere. i was sure this high, but that's why we should speak up in this moment. then hopefully by the most

frustrating thing for the active, this is when their neighbors see them as the problem and not right wing populism. of things they all, when i draw months of payments for the ground, these against the right, for instance, the campaigns were organizing and to do it. and i'm also confronted with like the silence score. people turn away and act as it hits us to while the problem is still as if we are the ones making trouble here. here, here was oregon, but the grannies aren't giving up. there's too much at stake after the european elections elections will be held in the state of saxony, and according to polls. for the 1st time ever, the a f d goodwin venture they offer minor anchors. i want my grandchildren to grow up in the same 3 tolerant democratic states that i did mention open and, and now i'm so worried it's all going down the drain. again. there's through disorders and i left over the over the dates. but today, no

a if the voters show up to chat with them at their stand, despite free coffee, t, n, t, none of the locals seem interested and decide to stay put inside. there's simply no dialogue between the grannies and do bins a if the voters an increasing number of voters are turning to right and left wing parties because they no longer feel represented by the establishment. which is exactly what prompted felipe for my mon or from italy to switch the political aisle . he used to be a staunch, conservative, but now he feels best represented by the post fascist brothers of italy who are currently in power in southern italy's, marty felicia has faith at the party will bring change. but those around him see things quite differently of a 21 meter tall chrysler redeemer statute overlooks the gulf of police castro in southern italy. felipe or my moni owns

a restaurant here in 2019 he made the acquaintance of georgia maloney, chairwoman of the post fascist practice. the patio at the time, averaging only around 3 percent of the boat. now she's italy's prime minister in minneapolis and diva mountain. she made a positive impression on me at the time you put it in the valley. i it. ok. i realize that after the burly scone arrows she and her political project, the board, i've had a future chat with anybody who's going to use my money used to vote for silvio berlusconi. his party the right of center for the thought you thought of. yeah. but now he's gone over to the brothers of italy, which many in the country label, post, fascist. he doesn't believe it poses a danger to democracy and says the party officially moved away from its glorification of the former, dictated mussolini. long ago, my morning claims this alienated many early followers of the party. a sort of fill out the vote, some in their loyal base are disappointed because the parties not pushing through

their right waiting platform. no not motivated, you know that alone. he is a responsible politician. so she has to consider the finances and the national budget 1st question to you and for that what she needs the support for the european union to the for j liberal by for $11.00. my money feel is that money left, meaning workers voted for georgia, maloney because italy's left wing parties have lost sight of their concerns jobs. so one of the most important issues known as sheriff is less inclined to warm up to the ideas of the right wing nationalist prime minister. all politicians has promised you the 1st and the move, but in the end, you have to manage the problems of daily life yourself. i don't demand that politicians save our lives. but if you believe in something and have ideals but never see anything get better, you lose hope than in italy. we haven't seen any real changes for the better.

georgia maloney has been governing italy since 2022 internationally. she betrays a more moderate stance, showing support for nato and ukraine. critics say it's a different matter when it comes to domestic affairs. she abolished the citizens benefits out loud, so we get motherhood and lead campaigns against journalists and intellectuals. the my loaner often argues over politics with his friend, just set b. as in boy, a really is you need su left the only think about civil rights. so when you concentrate only on issues like notice, you forgot the workers, the pores, the society, and the other, the you've turned into the party of the wrench. and the legs is at the end of the party. they say they're in the lobby of the right. a lot goes as long as you, with your slogan, let's close the ports. no, the migraines and abortion is not

a right and you're constantly attacking the civil rights o g, english to me which it might work for now because people are still honeymooning with maloney, you know, a lot and the right wing coalition has their support, the mobile, it was but sooner or later that honeymoon will be over, can see me. the maloney slogan for the european parliament election is italy changes europe. it's a ray of hope for filippo, but a nightmare for just at bay. and for both, it'll be a bone of contention for a long time to come. a while far right parties are becoming more establish at national levels in europe. they have yet to make their mark on the european stage, but if they gain more seats in the upcoming elections, european union policies could significantly change. so what exactly would it shift to the right mean for the u. r. next report takes a look at the consequences. this could have both in europe and outside its borders

. in the june elections for the european parliament, right wing and filed rights poppies expected to gain more seats. so far, the far right has not yet managed to unite that the european level. it's divided into different sections. but what would the right wing search in the european parliament mean? what consequences would it have for the you and the world? if you're right wing factions became a stronger and united group, they would most likely try to reduce migration into the you by attempting to change you loss this into might mean an increased number of people trying to enter the you regularly via landtroop or across the dangerous mediterranean sea and the atlantic the far right would also likely try to force the you to abandon its goal of being climate neutral by 2050 menu, right wing and fall, right? spotty, safe, green loss having

a negative effect on domestic workers and pharmacy. you are p h 2, developing countries could also be reduced drastically. but all these changes would require a united rights and file rights political front, which experts believe the different groups of still i'm likely to achieve. the main sticking points for us on. one of it's a lease right wing policies, the legal as well as the freedom party of austria, that both criticized the west top line against russia after its invasion of ukraine . but poland, the right wing law and justice policy, and it's at least of fall ride potty, the brothers of it leads us strong because of ukraine. and even if the far right factions are able to unite, europe's conservative incenses, potties have so far, refused to make deals with them. however, if it changed the far right and right wing puppies would truly gain influence in the european parliament. the attempted assassination of slovak,

the as populous leader, robert feed, so has highlighted the nation's deep political divide authority, say the suspect had a clear political motivation. prime minister feed, so came to power again. last year. this time on a pro russian platform is nationalist and populous rhetoric has raised concerns in the you. data expert veronica, frank, called scott, believe this information campaigns with deep fix and artificial intelligence were rampant in slovakia selections. and she fears they could also sway the vote in european elections and brought to slab out the capital of silver. yeah, they were only covering costco, is on a mission to protect her home country from this information and fake news. we come across a lot of information especially on. busy internet and it's hard for people to tell

whether it is true and our job this to look for the piece of information that are false or misleading into europeans will vote for a new parliament franco smell. enjoy old is one of the 29 fact checking teams across the you're working with us tech jane mehta to the bunk state content. they are citing a new enemy. the fix flips created in minutes with the help of a high software in which people appear to see or do things they never did. and no country in europe has experienced this and use registers tend like still voc. yeah . in september 2023. we had parliament tonight, elections and in the months before them there was quite a rise in this information. just a few days before the election suspicious audio file appeared on line. the seemingly involved because she met scott, the leader of the pro european of progressive. so voc half party in one of them,

she seemed to be talking to a journalist about how to make the index. and another one about plans for raising the price of the or both of these deep face 1st appeared on the telegram. but the gains traction when they were re shared by accounts on facebook. from there, they spread like wildfire. they were shared on uh personal messages and lots of messages within hours, fact checkers deepak, the posts as likely fakes, prompting meta to label them. but people continued to share them and she made discuss progressive, sloughed the election by a few points to the pub, to list the pro ration smear. s t party met to the tech giant behind facebook, instagram. and what's that said? it had slowed down the spread of the slovak, deep face, after they've been slacked, and gets the deep take about the election, breaking still a mast over $100000.00 public views in a country of less than 5 and

a half 1000000 people. that's how this information works. experts say it's very nature makes it impossible to say with 100 percent certainty who's behind it. and he gets one form of senior government officials told us that when it comes to last year steep fakes, he's pretty sure i believe it's very likely that there was russians brand because there are so many coin you see that and sees and so many details that just come out any other logical explanation. my name is daniel milo and until december, last year i was the director of center for a company in harvey threats that select duty or shortly after the government was formed. that the you know, the mission that i be leaving mainly to protect slovakia from a 40 hostile influence and to be able to push back against such influence was not

possible anymore. since then. my loss is the new pro russian government has got rid of many early warning and defense mechanisms. it's much easier for us to come back to it. so it seems was a patients. well, definitely expect the rest of the intensified there at the meetings. in an e mail, so the box is interior ministry rejected my last statements saying that they do not accord with we effect and undermine the work results of specialist. the slovakia, along with the rest of the european union, enters election mode, fuser running high that a i generate a deep fate is to once again emerge in the run up to the vote. i'm afraid that especially in slow back have ups also in other countries. this is only going to show and so they've become more disturbing before the european elections. districts is really the tug of war between pro european parties

and the right is also changing the media landscape and poland journalists, dorado battle work was directly affected by the policies of the nationalist law and just as party, they ruled poland from 2015 until last year. a new coalition is now trying to reverse the country, shift to the right, but their methods are drawing criticism even from the government's own supporters. the above awake is getting ready to return to polish airways from here in strasburg, she's become the new face of poland. is public broadcast or in the european union? something on thinkable until last year i did everything i quote. from north letter the organization decided to both my profession. director was fired from a private police channel in 2022. officially overcoat would rule breaches, but she's sure it was down to the media influence of poland, former nationalist, and you're a skeptic. government. i for the pressure from a 2015 own works,

it was growing, it was a always a bigger one. it was closer to the elections. sometimes when the, when the big things were happening in brussels, which were negative for poland. and i was not ask to report on them after a pro european conservative led coalition gained the numbers to govern last year, there also, it was recruited to report for poland, public service broadcasters, cvp it more. so there are more new kids on the block. there's been a radical switch out at the channel once accused of being nothing more than a populist government. tonight piece shift menu of cisco. what changed? everything changed. most of all the people in the entire teams are new. plus the type of language we use has changed. this means that has no hatred or defend them just float on the screen. so for the last 8 years, we changed it to simply put lipstick, language,

democratic language. the language of public television is telling me people beach type, but the change is controversial. the station was occupied by nationals protesters in december and temporarily went of error made to the cables. many stuffers were suddenly sacked among them. so reading this usually returned from germany and out of jobs. i'm south of the, i'm not invalid in my for years days that he was a t v. p correspondent, breaking big stories. he's been accused of favoring the previous government in his coverage. but after being sacked, he says he's the one who's the victim of advice system, april 20th. because this is the experience of every journalist in poland with conservatives. i never work in any media outlet for more than a few years because left cleaning liberal circles to put pressure on these media to deprive them of their voice was by the triple post. of course. as the media landscape shifts, even observers who bought the new government's moves,

say it stretched the limits of the lo may be these activities of our government, i mean to finding out was not the freight. the legal bucket was necessary. this new television. you probably to meet the need some time to find to, to gather the credibility on picking the legacy of poland is recent deposit is also proving difficult for the new government. in other areas, the sections the left administration over alleged attempts to control police courts through new laws. no judges want systemic change to restore independence. but the ocean left the last 8 years have been very difficult because we haven't been fighting to ensure that both have the right to go to court. so the petition is enough to dictate the contents of judge's rulings. a chemist will divide that we want to build the mother and the team system and, and the system that's over several decades has great. he's trying to, that's the role of the minister of just the simple and i mean these types of

devices. and that will take time in a pullin which remains politically polarized, but outside for so there are fewer classes to cover these days. the general atmosphere around poland in process in europe has changed too much more positive one. when i report from process. and i don't have to explain so much. why do you decided to criticize us? why we are punished? but i have new challenge, which is to to present the real face of the european union to the polish people. you elections are foster approaching populace. parties are expected to gain ground . there also says she'll be here to cover every twist and turn now to a place that's divided not by politics, but by a border light. the good is

a town that straddles both germany and france, while e regulations apply year. one part is governed by french laws and the other by german ones. the red tape makes life complicated, but despite those challenges, the villagers don't want to take sides as well. now i'm in germany, the and now i'm in phones. penning and his parents lived in a buying national village. france on the left, germany on the right. lading and has been split since napoleonic times. all the ways tasha loved strolling around the village. that's the thing that wins off that now we're on the neutral street. yeah, i think i've left so it is in france. my right foot is in germany. yeah, we're living the european dream and so i am so sorry. but not every one is a fan. there is a german hydrant and a french hydrant, the french church and a german, one,

french pets and german ones too. there's never been a border fence and right way populist ideas have never caught on lighting and simply to european for that. but cast the most says dealing with german and french bureaucracy can be exhausting. as it looks, it doesn't really have any advantages of skin. and there's a unique situation. for example, with fests and burglaries, the criminals can just simply cross the border z and then we have to inform our french colleagues including for which takes a while longer than the left but and the criminals get away. so by the baggage, then there are crimes. you'd find in few other village it says german village head, divide, document size. these glitches i have the most. so the german side still has a flag ops and probably signaling that this is germany. moved on the other side. someone has removed the french flagpole out, a little stuff went through the additional the gentleman had removed it and

a chrome would have travel to berlin to take this up with a german chancellor. in this comes to the installation. yeah. everyone here however, is proud of the village community center built with plenty of e u. subsidies. the windows we couldn't have set this up without european supports . smith's counterpart, french mayor, my dumb limit of strong use to slip over the border as a teenager. that's less than we'll get it at the time. it was smuggling. sure. sometimes we'd walk through the little alley so that nobody would see us since alcohol 9 know not alcohol was the vitamin wine isn't the best it's. it's a little outside the village cuts mean clear by and her husband run a cattle farm. they say dealing with 2 countries, bureaucracy is a pain. but before getting into the details, they 1st need to help

a cow give birth declared by his breed, cast. having the farm right by the french border complicates matters the trust in quality selection here. the next. what else to we farm land here on from soil. written the scan that we would like to use the land for grazing because that's a design, but the law says the animals have to be quarantined for 3 months before they can be taken over to the other side of the road to france. football she once and even more open board, not just for the cows, but for her daughter to the. i'm in germany, the now i'm back in from the further european integration, could be the key, the as long as they don't discuss who makes better, why that brings our special edition of focus on europe to an end of theaters and n,

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