How Europe’s centrist governments can respond to the anti-immigration surge

Shorouk Express After the UK government recently unveiled immigration plans inspired by another centre-left government in Copenhagen, The Local looks to Spain and considers how the hardline Danish model isn’t the only way to respond to Europe’s surge in anti-immigration sentiment. There are arguably only three centre-left governments left in western Europe: Denmark, Spain and…

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‘Shameful’ socialists attract EU lawmakers’ ire for not backing Romania’s centrist candidate

Shorouk Express Socialists at the European level have spearheaded a campaign to keep far-right parties out of decision-making in Brussels’ institutions, routinely blaming the conservative EPP and Weber for voting alongside those parties on topics such as green policy and migration. Now, their Romanian colleagues are putting the group’s credibility in doubt. The leader of…

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