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    <http://eurac.tv/7dle?sid=33541>    Today's EU policy news,
16.03.2017, 5PM

       = The right kind of populism =

      === By  Frederic Simon <http://eurac.tv/7dl7?sid=33541> ===

 The European Commission  wasted no time <http://eurac.tv/7dlf?sid=33541>
in hailing Geert Wilders’ defeat in the Dutch elections as, a “vote for
Europe, a vote against extremists.”

 Jean-Claude Juncker told Mark Rutte, whose term as prime minister is now
likely to be renewed for the third time, “The results of this election
will be an  inspiration to many <http://eurac.tv/7dlg?sid=33541>.”

  Victorious Rutte declared <http://eurac.tv/7dlh?sid=33541>, “The
Netherlands, after Brexit, after the American elections, said ‘stop’ to
the wrong kind of populism.”

 OK guys, you can be forgiven a spot of back-slapping but don’t get  too
carried away <http://eurac.tv/7dli?sid=33541>. The helmet-haired bottle
blonde may have lost but he hasn’t been cast into the political
wilders-ness.

 He now heads the country’s main opposition party. “Rutte is not rid of
me yet,” the supermarket-own brand strongman said.

 Populism has  not gone away <http://eurac.tv/7dlj?sid=33541>, as Open
Europe’s Pieter Cleppe  points out here <http://eurac.tv/7dlk?sid=33541>.
It comes  in many guises <http://eurac.tv/7dll?sid=33541> and is good for
democracy, especially if you believe in encouraging citizens to vote and
become politically engaged.

 Brexit was brought about by the mother of all populist campaigns, which
piggybacked on good old-fashioned British euroscepticism.

 Far-right parties such as France’s Front National and Germany’s AfD
rely on fears about immigration. Their popularity was rising back in 2014,
when their politicians made impressive gains in the European Parliament
elections.

 Italy’s Five Star Movement is looking to capitalise on its electoral
success at the country's next election. This rag-tag bunch insists it
cannot be defined as left or right but is simply a movement of the people.

 In Southern Europe, the anti-austerity movement brought the leftist Syriza
to power, but also saw the rise of a new breed of more moderate populist
parties such as the left wing Podemos and more conservative Ciudadanos in
Spain.

  Emmanuel Macron in <http://eurac.tv/7dlm?sid=33541> France now seems to
be riding on the same moderate citizen-inspired, anti-establishment wave.

 Rutte, refreshingly, understands the word populism, rather than just using
it as shorthand for “someone I disagree with”. He found the right words
when he spoke about “the wrong kind of populism”.

 Mainstream parties need to realise that Europe desperately needs more
populism of  the right kind. <http://eurac.tv/7dln?sid=33541>

 Otherwise they risk  being swept away <http://eurac.tv/7dlo?sid=33541> by
movements with leaders  better at listening
<http://eurac.tv/7dlp?sid=33541> and talking to their voters.

      == The Roundup ==

 Relations with Ankara are strained. Turkey’s president accused the
EU’s top court of starting a  “crusade” against Islam
<http://eurac.tv/7dlw?sid=33541> after judges allowed European companies to
ban religious symbols such as the Islamic headscarf.

 Herd-ogan – sorry Erdogan – has also expelled Dutch cows as the steaks
are raised in the diplomatic crisis. Let’s moo-ve on before it looks like
we are  milking this story <http://eurac.tv/7dlx?sid=33541>.

 British Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected Scottish First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon’s  demand for a <http://eurac.tv/7dly?sid=33541> second 
Scottish independence referendum <http://eurac.tv/7dlz?sid=33541>. The
Queen  gave royal assent <http://eurac.tv/7dlA?sid=33541> to the Brexit
bill today.

 Ex-WTO chief Pascal Lamy today said Scotland  would have “zero
technical problems” in  joining the EU <http://eurac.tv/7dlB?sid=33541>.
He added, “I knew Boris [Johnson] as a nasty young kid. He never
changed.”

 Here’s UK Brexit Boss David Davis admitting London  faces the loss
<http://eurac.tv/7dlC?sid=33541> of passporting for its financial services
and confessing to not having looked into what the EU-UK split means for the
European Health Insurance Card.

 The European Parliament has called for a ban on oil drilling in Arctic
waters, adopting a resolution by 483 votes to 100. MEPs also backed a new
binding law  on conflict minerals <http://eurac.tv/7dlD?sid=33541>.

 The lead MEP on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is targeting
pension fund capital to kickstart the  EU’s renovation revolution
<http://eurac.tv/7dlE?sid=33541>. But Europe is far from being a clean
energy pioneer, according to the  German solar industry
<http://eurac.tv/7dlF?sid=33541>.

 Russia believes that Slovakia is the only Visegrad country that  may leave
NATO <http://eurac.tv/7dlG?sid=33541>.

 The Commission believes that Romania will miss its 2017 deficit target but
 Bucharest is bullish <http://eurac.tv/7dlH?sid=33541>.

 Bosnia and Herzegovina risks losing millions in EU  energy project funding
<http://eurac.tv/7dlI?sid=33541>.

 A metal sculpture shaped like rising waves is being installed in the EU
quarter as a memorial to the victims of the  Brussels terror attacks
<http://eurac.tv/7dlJ?sid=33541>.

 Scandal-hit French presidential candidate François Fillon has a jazz
musician brother. Check  out the pic <http://eurac.tv/7dlK?sid=33541> of
one of the few members of his family not being paid by the state
(allegedly).

 It may be hard to believe but Belgium has the  fourth highest number
<http://eurac.tv/7dlL?sid=33541> of strike days a year, lagging behind
France, Denmark  and Canada…

      == Look out for… ==

 It is St Patrick’s Day tomorrow. So look out for officials, MEPs, hacks
and lobbyists spilling out of the Irish pubs around Schuman. It’s that
special day of the year when we dig out the single greatest tweet by a
Commissioner ever. Feast your eyes on  this unforgettable pic
<http://eurac.tv/7dlM?sid=33541>.

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