Let the somber postmortems and insider jockeying begin! The result of the 2024 European elections this week was, broadly speaking, what we all figured it would be. The populist right and illiberal voices did alright, but the lefty-ish folks held their own. The Macrons and Scholzs of the bloc more or less collapsed, while the Green wave of 2019 is all but washed up. And … they kinda deserve it?
What did seem pretty clear is that voters — the roughly 50% of them who voted, at least — are unhappy with politics as usual.
Discussing what happened and what now, Euroscopic brings a fine group of EUobserver reporters to the podcast table: Viktória Serdült in Hungary, Valentina Saini in Italy, and Piet Ruig in Brussels returns from last week to look to France.
So pull up a chair of your own, dig into some cacio e pepe, and listen along to a special episode recorded together from the heart of any home, and the source of all politics: the home kitchen.
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