the nation and to shape tomorrow. join us and register now for the d. w global media for in 2024. the . this is focus on europe. i'm lara. babel a 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 this 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 do then in the state of saxony, their calls for tolerance and the quality seem to be falling on deaf ears. activists are taking to the streets for democracy, intolerance, and the small sex and town of good. and in the thick of it all grannies against the right, the mr. jags almost as this, about all of the other people in the values we whole lot would be more about freedom, 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 has sex. any branch has been designated as right wing extremist by germany is domestic intelligence agency. the f d less is out against other german parties, denies human cause,

climate change and campaigns against l. g b t q rights and refugees is kind of means, oh, i can assure you that perkins made heads, girls publicly supported dogs and other good for nothings, will not secure our prosperity, economic growth, and the social state stock mission. the grant is against the right or watching this right word, surge with great concern or the head of the european elections. they want to talk to local if the voters they've got coffee intake and information about the right wing populace. that's view, i'm problem 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 horsemen found at the group and do the in about 3 months ago after journalist reported on a right wing meeting near berlin, their a, f, d. politicians,

right wing extremists and some conservative politicians are said to have planned reporting millions of immigrants because that is the fact that such a discussion happened with shocking and deeply disturbing an english and convinced me something had to be done. some was 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 on this high, but that's why we should speak up in this moment time, 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 into and i'm also confronted with like the silence for people turn away and act as it hits us to while the problem that is still as if we are the ones making trouble here, we're here 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 f d could when they offer minor anchors, i want my grandchildren to grow up in the same 3 tolerant democratic states that i did mention. okay and, and now i'm so worried it's all going down the drain again. just go to the store because if i, let's go to the, the dates, but today know

a if the voters show up to check with them at their stand. despite free coffee, t and 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, on my loan, 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 myra to 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. sleep on my monet owns

a restaurant here in 2019 he made the acquaintance of georgia maloney, chairwoman of the post fast just brought out of 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 berlusconi arrows she and her political project to go, i've had a future exam 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. 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 his glorification of the former, dictated mussolini long ago. my, monique 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 wing platform. no not motivated. you know that alone as a responsible politician or the so she has to consider the finances and the national budget 1st question to you. and for that she needs the support for the european union to get a better approach. i live at all by for $11.00. my money feel is that many left leaning 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 load on all politicians has promised you the earth and the moon. 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. in, 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, surrogate motherhood, and led campaigns against journalists and intellectuals. the mona often argues over politics with his friend, just set b as in boy, really as you need, as you left the only think about civil rights. so when you concentrate only on issues like notice, you forgot the worker, the forest of society, and the other, the you've turned into the party of the ridge and the that the, and the party that he see there in the lobby. i the right a lot going to be as long as you with your slogan. so let's close the ports. know

the migraines, and abortion is not a right. and you're constantly attacking the civil rights all g english to which it might work for now because people are still honeymooning with maloney, you know, on the right when coalition has their support, the level of respect sooner or later that honeymoon will be over to infinity. 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 wells? if you're ups 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 and might mean an increase 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 many right wing and fall. right. but the safe,

green loss having a negative effect on domestic workers and farmers. you were 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 are still unlikely to achieve the main sticking points. rochell. one of it's a lease right wing policy is 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, it's right wing law and justice policy, and it's at least of fall ride potty. the brothers of italy are 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 face and artificial intelligence were rampant in slovakia selections. and she fears they could also swear to vote in european elections in brought to slab out the capital of silver. yeah, they were only catherine costa is on a mission to protect her home country from this information and fake news. we come across a lot of information, especially on the 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 our fault or misleading into europeans will vote for a new parliament. franklin small in deal is one of 29 fact checking teams across the you're working with us tech james meta 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 here. in september of 2023, we had to 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 files appeared on line, the seemingly involved because she met scott, the leader of the pro european of progressive so of kept parties. in one of them,

she seemed to be talking to a journalist about how to rick dx in another one about plans for raising the price of b. or both of these deep face 1st appeared on the telegram, but the games 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, to list the pro ration smear. s t party met to the tech giant behind facebook instagram and what's happening? 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 a 100000 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 and 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 will still russians go to print 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 and have the 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 losses, the new pro russian government has got rid of many early warning and defense mechanisms. it's much easier for us to come back. it's a, it's enclosed operations. 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 book results of specialists. the slovak here, along with the rest of the european union, enters election mode fuse are running high that a i generate a deep 6 to once again emerge in the run up to the vote. i'm afraid that especially in slow back have ups also in the countries this is only going to show and 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. the 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 air weights. from here in strasburg, she's become the new face of poland, public broadcast, or in the european union, something on thinkable until last year. i did everything i quote from north letter the politicians 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 done to the media influence of pullman's, former nationalist, a. 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 for 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 pullman's public service broadcast or t v p. it more so there are more new kids on the block. there's been a radical switch out at the china once accused of being nothing more than a popular government to make peace. sure 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 it has no hatred or defend them just float on the screen. so for the last 8 years, we changed it to simply pewter listed language, democratic language,

the language of public television as a television, people reach light. but the change is controversial. the station was occupied by nash those protesters in december and temporarily went of error made to the cables . many stuffers were suddenly sacked. among them, say the reading this usually returned from germany and out of a job. i'm south of the, i'm not invalid in my for years days that he was a t vp 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, 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 governments 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 of the credibility on picking the legacy of poland. the recent past 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 issue of a lot of the last 8 years have been very difficult because we have been fighting to ensure that both have the right to go to courts. so the petitions did not dictates the content of judge's rulings. a chemist will device that we want to build a mother and your team system and, and the system that's over several decades has great he's trying to, that's the role of the administer of just the simple and what i mean,

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

a town that straddles both germany and france, while e regulations apply here. 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 now, i'm in germany, the i'm now i'm in phones. pending and his parents lived in a buying national village, france on the left, germany on the right, lighting and has been split since napoleonic times. all the ways tasha love strolling around the village. that's the thing that wins off that now you'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'm 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 v and then we have to inform our french colleagues including for which takes a while longer than the left button. 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 left. on the other side, someone has removed the french flagpole out of those stuff once. in addition to the

german, had removed it and a chrome would have travel to berlin to take this up with a german chancellor in this concept of undulation. 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 or am i on the line isn't the best. 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 trusting qualities lesson here, the next. what else do we find land here on from soil written by scan, 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 either to france football she wants it even more open board or not just for the cows, but for her daughter to i'm in germany. the know i'm back in from the further european integration could be the key, the as long as i don't discuss who makes better, why that brings our special edition of focus on europe to an end of theaters and an

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