Anti-immigrant candidates and far-right parties are poised to make gains in the upcoming European elections - so why are nationalist and populist politics growing across Europe and will they triumph?
European solidarity is being tested by migration, climate change, and the future of the EU itself.
No bed either for a young Somali woman named Fatima who appears to have travelled alone to France. When I ask where she is sleeping, she answers, "in a cafeteria." Resurgent nationalism, migration and dissatisfaction with the EU have delivered Eurosceptic majorities in Poland, Italy and Hungary. "We cannot support the evolution of the European union of the last few years," said MEP Gerolf Annemans, chairman of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group .
This is down to Italy’s failing economy, migration and what Italian philosopher Michele Nicoletti describes as the return of fear. Despite numerous phone calls and e-mails I don't manage to speak to anyone from the AFD. The party's election posters are absent from Offenburg's streets. I come across one small bit of anti-AFD graffiti but get the impression the movement is somewhat underground. "I'm still waiting and I hope to get it," says a young man from Nigeria. Another from Gambia has received negetive news. "I'm taking a lawyer," he said.
"If you are a person with family, many kids, don’t speak the language and probably don’t have work it’s not that easy to find apartments".
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