This week, the Internet is full of interesting stuff about the 2024 European elections, which were sort of momentous. Here are four links I liked, and one that helped me to cope.
- Over at the Conversation, Amelia Hadfield has a compact summary of what just happened in the European elections. Although the centre still holds, the far-right now has a real chance to flex its muscles. While the centrist EPP and S&D groups by and large kept their grip, the surge of far-right parties, especially in France and Italy (and also, on a lower level, in Germany), could sway EU policies on issues like immigration and climate change. Oops.
- How is it possible that Meloni is so successful in Italy? George Newth looks at her clever and successful campaign and so provides a partial answer (and a cautious look to the future).
- Shameless plug & a case of ‘told you so’: what we have seen in the 2024 election is mostly in line with what I expected to happen with respect to the far right.
- Something to get away from this mess. Nathan Goldwag writes on the moral-political economy of the Shire. The old Internet was full of stuff like this: people giving a lot of thought to the earnest analysis of entirely fictional worlds. We should bring that culture back.
- And finally, back to business: my colleague Nils Steiner has a tweet-size analysis of the aggregate relationship between the Green vote and the AfD vote in the 2024 EP election in Germany:
The GAL-TAN divide in action: Strong negative association between vote shares for the Greens and the AfD in the EP elections across Germany's 400 districts. pic.twitter.com/7zQIJvgmDU
— Nils Steiner (@NilsSteiner) June 11, 2024
