Roberta Metsola’s appointment to President of the European Parliament is the latest rise of the right in Europe.
Roberta Metsola comes from a right-wing Maltese party and is known to gender equality advocates for her anti-abortion declarations. The European Central Bank’s Christine Lagarde is the past finance minister of a right-wing government in France.
Ursula von der Leyen, the first woman to become President of the Commission, was a defence minister from the Christian Democratic Union for Angela Merkel (yet another conservative woman leader) in Germany.
In other words, at the European level, all woman leaders belong to the same group: the European People’s Party, a ‘moderate’ right-wing entity today, but one that used to include parties with thorough reactionary positions on gender equality, such as Viktor Orban’s Fidesz.
French President Emmanuel Macron won re-election with 58% of the vote, compared with 41% for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Congratulations came flooding in from across Europe and the world. However, Macron faces many challenges ahead, as he seeks to govern a deeply divided country with rising support for right with coming regional elections.
The right is growing through out Europe and is also playing an important role in the Ukraine war which Putin uses as one of his pretext of for invading Ukarine.
The rise of the right in Europe causes of anti-immigrant sentiment which is a serious threat to racialized minorities in Europe.
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