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‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says

Voting patterns and polling data from the past year suggest the EU is moving towards a more ethnic, closed-minded and xenophobic understanding of “Europeanness” that could ultimately challenge the European project, according to a major report.

The report, by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), identifies three key “blind spots” across the bloc and argues their intersection risks eroding or radically altering EU sentiment.

The report, shared exclusively with the Guardian, argues that the obvious “whiteness” of the EU’s politics, low engagement by young people and limited pro-Europeanism in central and eastern Europe could mould a European sentiment at odds with the bloc’s original core values.

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[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No shit. I see and hear so much pathetic racist bullshit in Europe I want to vomit more than I could possibly eat. Pathetic little racist shitstains thinking they are somehow superior to "brown people". /a "white" person with common sense and no inferiority complexes

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Really? Literally noone I've talked to believe themselves to be superior, they instead usually talk about migrant crime, low migrant employment and "we don't have enough for ourselves". The first two are based on official, government provided statistics, the latter is based on feelings derived from our stagnating economy. People don't see any benefit from the european migrant crisis, only downsides.

[-] 01011@monero.town 7 points 1 month ago

There are definitely Europeans who think they and their culture are superior.

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

you get those in any culture without doubt, yes. But I doubt they are as numerous as people think.

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