https://www.foxnews.com/world/...in-european-election

Left-wing billionaire George Soros, in a rare op-ed, has fired a warning shot to what he describes as the “sleeping pro-European majority” ahead of the European Parliament elections in May -- saying Europe needs to "wake up before it is too late" and before nationalist parties take control.

“Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late,” the Hungarian-American financier, known for his promotion of left-wing policies, he wrote for Project Syndicate.

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Soros is something of a bogeyman in right-wing circles due to his funding of left-wing causes both in Europe and the U.S. Hungary’s nationalist government recently passed a “Stop Soros” package to curtail his activities via his Open Society Foundations -- including a measure making it illegal for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to organize illegal immigration into the country.

Last year, British media reported that Soros had delivered $560,000 to an anti-Brexit campaign, leading to accusations from Brexiteers that he was part of an international plot to stop Brexit and bring down the government.

But with nationalist and right-wing parties on the rise in Europe, Soros is setting off alarm bells of his own. In his op-ed, he claims that “anti-European forces” will have a competitive advantage in May, when lawmakers to the European Parliament will be elected. He blames the “outdated party system” and “the lack of legal tools for disciplining member states that violate the principles on which the European Union was founded.”

“The antiquated party system hampers those who want to preserve the values on which the EU was founded, but helps those who want to replace those values with something radically different” he writes. “This is true in individual countries and even more so in trans-European alliances.

While the European Parliament has typically leaned to the left on issues such as national independence, spending and immigration, the populist wave across the continent looks set to shift that.

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In Hungary, Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party, running on an anti-mass migration platform won a supermajority last year. In Italy, a coalition government of the nationalist League and the populist 5-Star Movement won last year. Meanwhile in Britain, the Conservative Party is pushing forward with its plan to exit the E.U. at the end of March.

Right-wingers also won elections last year in Austria and the Czech Republic. Meanwhile more globalist-minded leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are struggling.

Macron’s approval ratings have nosedived and Paris has been plagued by weekly “yellow vest” protests. In Germany, despite winning re-election in 2017, Merkel has promised to step down as chancellor before the next federal elections -- as she also fights of a rising right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Describing the current E.U. leadership as “reminiscent of the Politburo when the Soviet Union collapsed” Soros says it is hard to see how pro-E.U. parties can win in May “unless they put Europe’s interests ahead of their own.”

“The first step to defending Europe from its enemies, both internal and external, is to recognize the magnitude of the threat they present,” he writes. “The second is to awaken the sleeping pro-European majority and mobilize it to defend the values on which the EU was founded.”

“Otherwise, the dream of a united Europe could become the nightmare of the 21st century,” he warns.

uh huh

sky is falling

got it

FOAD, George, and be quick about it

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He blames the “outdated party system” and “the lack of legal tools for disciplining member states that violate the principles on which the European Union was founded.”

As liberally interpreted by the people he agrees with. Pun not intended, but I'm willing to go with the flow.

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“The antiquated party system hampers those who want to preserve the values on which the EU was founded, but helps those who want to replace those values with something radically different” he writes.

Including the principle that the EU is supposed to be responsive to the people of Europe rather than to the party - and therefore national - elites like, say, Adolf Hitler. (No, really. That was the idea. No more elites or factions on a tear = no more continent-wide wars. This is the principle that became subsumed in the absurd notion of relying on technocrats that Europeans are now rejecting in elections right, left and center.)

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Describing the current E.U. leadership as “reminiscent of the Politburo when the Soviet Union collapsed”

Why, yes, it rather is - and that, if I understand correctly, is the problem that has led to the suite of messes that Europe is currently facing. Brexit, anyone?

Anything Soros thinks is bad is probably good......

Soros and his GDC minions are more likely the cause for Europe’s destruction than the right is, IMO.

Some saying about "...the horse he rode in on"??

Holy irony Batman! Europe has been “sleepwalking into oblivion” for quite some time due to the insane liberal policies and mass importation of millions of muslims whos belief system is totally incompatible with western culture...and they have lots of babies!

Like Hitler stating that the Jews are crazy for not supporting the NAZIs.

Most evil bastard currently alive in the US.

The irony here is completely off the charts.

My goddamned legs hurt too much to do my deliriously happy happy dance.

Paging SIGmonkey... please step in and throw some poo at Mr. Soros. Watching that is almost as much fun as my deliriously happy happy dance or watching the European Union getting made into a bloomin' onion!

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

“The antiquated party system hampers those who want to preserve the values on which the EU was founded, but helps those who want to replace those values with something radically different” he writes.

This statement coming from an ultra-progressive is so ironic I can barely stand it.

I love it! I would be tickled to see Soro’s plan crumble before his eyes and have his accounts and assets taken from him, foundations fall and have him found guilty of treason. All before his lungs take that last breath.

Holding on to my hat

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FOAD, George, and be quick about it

...and take RBG with you.

Put a stake in this assholes heart

I spend a lot of time in Europe and have a lot of friends there. I have never heard one of them mention Soros. I'm pretty sure he will influence the average European's thinking slightly more than I will.

Then I want a world full of oblivion.

Left wing incompetence in the European governments has led, once again, the the rise of right leaning movements.
The problem in the past was that they were so extreme and went way past simple governance to total control by lunatics.
The EU was an attempt to have a central government over all the states, much like the US. The problem is that they didn't have people with the wisdom write the rules and they have too much history with others sharing the same land mass.

^^^ Ordnung, baby, Europeans are all about the ordnung.

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Then I want a world full of oblivion.

Chaos. An American looks at chaos and sees both dynamism and opportunity; we define ourselves as a nation by the way individuals carve and build both stability and futures out of an often chaotic world. A jerkoff like Soros looks at chaos he did not himself create and sees only oblivion - and that, more than anything, speaks volumes (if not whole libraries) about the limitations of Olde Worlde thinking.