Concerns about migration and terrorism are rising in Europe, while the fight against climate change is being sidelined as a priority among voters, a survey led by a former NATO secretary-general has found.
A large-scale global survey conducted by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (ADF) among 63,000 people in 53 countries reveals declining interest in the Ukraine war, concerns about damage to democracy by “global corporations,” and governments. Remarkable global trends have been uncovered, including a growing belief that only people can seek justice. Serving the “few” rather than the majority. These findings also include the latest data on Europeans’ feelings about threats to the continent and the priorities they have for their governments.
ADF, founded by former NATO Secretary-General and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has published its annual report. Democracy perception index This week, the paper reported that “in many European countries, the proportion of people who think ‘reducing immigration’ should be a top priority for governments has risen sharply.” At the same time, he said, interest in “fighting climate change” is declining.
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Reducing immigration is a priority for just 16 percent of people globally, but in some European states it tends to be a priority of 50 percent. As a policy area, Europe as a whole is on track to overtake fighting climate change this year and easily surpass boosting economic growth by 2025, leaving only “poverty reduction” as a bigger priority for European voters. It has become.
This is a surprising development, especially since many Western governments say they are promoting open borders and high immigration levels precisely to foster economic growth. Although this is increasingly widely recognized to be a lie, or at least misguided, the findings of a new report show that even if large-scale immigration proves to boost Western economies, European suggests that they may prefer a reduction in immigration over economic growth at all costs.
Concerns about immigration vary across Europe, but Germany, the Netherlands and France are among the countries that believe governments should address immigration ahead of a continent-wide trend towards making immigration a top priority for citizens. , including the UK. On a slightly off-topic note, the people interviewed in Germany, Ireland and France are at the forefront of people around the world insisting that immigration is not just a national issue, but a global issue of paramount importance. Meanwhile, concerns about terrorism are increasing on the African continent, particularly in France.
The study is based on a left-wing coalition featuring both the establishment-left Social Democratic Party and the far-left Green Party, where encouraging immigration and fundamental transformation of the economy remain top priorities in line with environmentalist policies. This may be particularly unpleasant for some. The push for this ideology led to some notable decisions, such as shutting down Germany’s remaining nuclear power plants during the energy crisis and gas shortage.
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Germany’s Green Party’s Federal Minister for Economy and Climate Protection, Robert Herbeck, later claimed that no one had warned him that shutting down nuclear power during the electricity crisis was a bad idea. While this may seem obvious, further revelations even suggest that the minister may have been deliberately kept in the dark about such things in order to push policy, and that the minister’s judgment and his inner circle This raises questions about both the negative effects of
Figures from the Democracy Perceptions Index show a disconnect among Germans, who are most likely to say that controlling immigration is a priority of any European country, but that the government’s principles are: It is as follows. can be easily expressed in public opinion polls. In the 2021 federal election that led to the current coalition government, the Red-Green-Yellow coalition won 51.8% of the popular vote, but today’s poll shows these parties only got 34% of the vote.
The red Social Democrats have even relinquished their position as Germany’s second-largest party in the past year, and the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) now has an approval rating of 18%.
The poll charting Europe’s new priorities comes just weeks before nearly the entire continent is due to vote in June’s European Parliament elections. The populist right is predicted to gain momentum, apparently panicking the centrist globalist Brussels establishment.
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