shoes and a voter thing based on not probably opposed to what you would seats in the farm land of the netherlands once you leave the big cities object. eric, i'm bring golf, i'll be back at the top of the hour with more of a news followed by the day i hope to see you then the the untold story. i just want to point to the find it here. repos every weekend on d. w. 2024 is the biggest election year in global history. and many of the several 1000000000 voters costing ballots. throwing their support behind the so called fire rice. the fire right has gain ground in

many parts of the world, particularly in europe. across the continent. far right parties have a significant foothold in many national parliaments, and some are already in power. for what role in his economics played and driving their popularity. they've been very successful, successful and in recruiting votes from voters with low economic prospects in jobs and sectors generally decline. those economic matter of course. well, it really does, particularly for those who is a q is it drives a lot of the salience. both these with our sample responses, what do the parties themselves say about the economy? you watch what happens if i, when we're going to bring those miners back, you're going to be so proud of your friends that you're going to be so proud of your country. in a sense that they call them me is spell them basically and extension of the culture

war. and how do business leaders feel about the prospect of governments led by the far right. if the party like you and the says, we need to get now let's do european union, we're against european union. this is very harmful to my business answers to these questions on more on business beyond we hear the term far right of lock. no it is. you're going to hear a lot in this episode, but what does it actually mean? and is it the right term to use in the you political parties affiliated to a group in the european parliament called identity and democracy routine. the labeled as far right? some of the themes which bind them nationalism strong, anti immigration sentiment and your skepticism. so we're talking about party such as friends as national riley, the netherlands party for freedom, along with several others across the u. many designated police prime minister, georgia maloney, and hunger. he's prime minister victor,

oregon as far right. it's also used for germany's f d. donald trump and the mike a movement of the us and a times even with the conservative party in the u. k. what some experts say the term fire rice doesn't work anymore. one is the political scientist pippin iris from harvard university. i've tried to search it basically because i just think it's way up to us. it's an old fashioned term, because europeans used to think of everything and that's brought up to since the 1st transmission. and that makes some sense when you had a conservative democrats and you had social democrats and social responses. nowadays, it's more complicated. she thinks plastic left right, divides over the economy, a gradually being superseded by a split over cultural issues. and it's a wide range of issues or issues like the top of the bush will be productive, right. so the 2 rugs nationals are best as customer pulse and there's a human rights trust. there's a sense of

a strong state. it helps explain why you're probably more likely to hear politicians like donald trump or victor, oregon, decrying the so called woke agenda. then discussing economic policy, don't people gain tools about populism they, they to, but really it's about the values about the moral issues and the social issues which to boss sante. atrocity, of course, as includes immigration in europe. but many other issues that go on that. but i think nowadays, the idea is that there's a simple unit dimensional left right spectrum is more misleading and confused as molding actually helps us to understand why these parties appealed to a wide variety of different places. but when these parties do speak about the economy, what do they say? they obviously don't all speak with one voice and they have their own domestic agendas. but there are some areas where they tend to agree. on one, is a strong opposition to globalization. during his successful 2016 us presidential election campaign, donald trump topped into a parent folder frustration around

a globalized economy. our politicians have aggressively pursued a policy of globalization, moving our jobs, our wealth, and our factories to mexico, and overseas. globalization is made the financial lead, who donate to politicians very, very wealthy. i used to be one of them. others, such as francis marine le pen have used the word globalization as a catch all term to reflect many of what she sees of societies is. the political choice, so the french people will have to make this clear why most of my coaches the give it, he's actually on the view, but i is, are you certainly, while globalization and secure gal the to so, so bridge have a to see the war of the 2nd, well again, store the economic run side getting of a large corporation and the nice leanna fix says the backlash against globalization

has now become quite mainstream boss. that the idea chimed strongly was an economic idea central the far right movements. national self sufficiency, the criticism, the wide twig makes, is linked to a more cultural idea of well, why don't we go back to the golden age, which has never existed of the nation state where every country can decide whatever they want to do from the south is not dependent on other companies, and that is obviously an illusion that age has never really existed until that's what played always played with important or for any nation state. but being opposed to globalization goes well with another thread. common to far right movements, nostalgia for old industry, and a pledge to bring it back. there's a host of research showing all these voters low and middle class where i can gloss, have experienced stages,

anxieties in the sense that they are in jobs. that come with the pressure from being das realization, from technological change from globalization. trump himself said he was going to stand for the coal mine, those virginia after the rust belt in michigan. and it does not send that to play with the space. um, people own said, well look, you probably compet store manufacturing industry, but at least fix for us. he speaks for all concerns. another part of the empty globalization backlash among fire right movements is opposition to multilateralism . in europe, that typically means fierce opposition to the, you know, used to be an agreement, for example, about your benefits would be in the open union. and there was probably, there's a question about that. the idea is you'd have free markets and you have a union and you just have basically a variety of different standards as well. it could be set. and to be recognized within that. since the 2016 briggs of both various far right parties in europe afflicted with n t e u positions. although some notice a softening,

since the turbulence of the u. k is exit or not all firewood parties. if you do mind, for example, the end of the year, can you tell me, let me for instance, past adaptive had a job for which and this trying to change. do you union comb with them and seems to be much more mainstream than what was expected? but i mean, the pen in funds also has stepped away, like against them, leave the ice, my can pay monthly, you're going to, you put unit, but it sort of again for you, you can get, get one party who's on t e u position has not softened to much is germany's alternative to you for deutschland or the f d. currently, the 2nd most popular party in the country going by opinion polls that party was founded in 2013, in response to the your as own crisis. understandably as fiercely your skeptic roots, which has held onto, was also developing a broader nationalistic,

anti immigration philosophy. if they are still explicitly by the color, i think i'd have sort of not told down the language both want to you opinion. they at least and regularly tests the prospect of a referendum on germany's a membership. it also wants the country to leave the your currency area. and those positions have in times the parties, popularity. since july 2022 support for the f d. a nationwide opinion polls more than doubled to a high of 22 percent in january 2024. that's come down by a few points since the party is current to the 2nd most popular in germany. but the f d is beset by controversy. they are officially designated as a suspected extremist organization. this year, there have been huge protests calling for them to be fund. one of the main reasons was a secret meeting. the party was involved in last november with several right wing

extremists. among the reported topics, a plan for the mass deportation of foreigners and even german citizens with a foreign background. the controversies have given lead to the f. d. been ostracized by others on the european side, right. they were recently kicked out of the european parliament grouping for fire right parties to the comments made by one of their leading candidates for that parliament, which appears to play down nazi war crimes is becoming ever more where they collide with other 5 parties in europe. each i'm trying to become more mainstream and they asked for to appeal triple bonuses. we asked the if the for an interview about their economic policies. and while the party did offer us the chance to speak one of their, i mean peas. they want to, to approve any answers we used for the interview and we instead send a list of questions to the party press office, a spokesperson responded. we just don't feel comfortable talking to dw, the party lists many of its key economic policies on its website. among their most

prominent positions would use via t and don't increase taxes. overall, the german tech system and leave the euro is on. critics say their economic policies would not benefit their voters. far right parties, a fast resistance from business elsewhere, put in the case of maloney initially on oregon and hungry. they have also found ways to work with business and business has found ways to work with them. so there is and then because relationship with business on the one hand business may well side was a rather christ, when it comes to taxation when it comes to welfare. if we look so hungry. what, what audubon did was to introduce a flat tax. the league wants to introduce a flop tax, they cancel fiscal reasons, maloney wants to lower taxes and low and also minimum income scheme in the interest of business. yes, internationally oriented companies are always likely to have

a problem with fire right. movements as the half the are finding out they see long, easy about the rise to ride to quite in the sense that what these parties do and, and, and trump these prob, sticking sampling disregard is to disrupt free trade by stimulating a turn towards economic protectionism. and economic nationalism, which is all the, the interest of export oriented companies. the rise of the far right in europe has raised the spectra of the 19 twenties and 19 thirties when economic crises such as unemployment hyperinflation have bringing factors through. but there are 2 key differences between the economies of the 19 twenties and the 2020s, employment and welfare. while inflation is still high, surprising the have quite the a labor problem in europe. so unemployment is very low. and, and companies, uh, we do use searching for a thoughtful leap. so that's

a big difference here. the examples of the have a difference to that installing computing. it is the sort of social wealth and structures in europe, very strong. and there was a big pandemic support package, trying to make sure both for companies but ultimately depend on us citizens to try to make sure to prevent exactly this sort of sliding down into unemployment sliding down. it took one of the clients of and then to by that conversation. however, if an economic crisis were to emerge, the threatened employment of the capacity of states to provide welfare far right parties are well place to capitalize. that's obviously a nice man that is haunting new positions today and to make some requirements or even, and the comic downtime not as big a big not be quiet since the 29 could repeated so it could lead to devise. so i'm going to in parties to up for now far, right parties in europe and elsewhere,

a thriving on issues away from the economy. and when you look at um directorate. yes, many of the economic issues are a positive, the teams that they not really the mainstream theme in many, many cases. it's the calculations which is where they have been brought to where they have issues ownership, where they really managed to a stairwell impressions and still not that, that they support, which becomes all assume that it was conscious. there's a famous phrase attributed to the american political strategist, james carville, the economy, stupid. which means that it's the economy which matters most of orders even when that's not all, was readily apparent on the rise of the far right. suggest us. it's the culture of stupid, maybe a more appropriate political aphorism for our present age of discord in division. not that the economy will ever be too far away either. thanks for watching until the next time. take care. the

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