Steve Bannon setting up "The Movement" to bolster Europe's nationalists
The former chief strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is setting up a foundation in Europe to support nationalist movements on the continent, according to reports. The group, called The Movement, will be a "clearing house for the populist, nationalist movement in Europe," Kassam Raheem, the former editor-in-chief of Breitbart London who is working with Bannon, told the Reuters news agency.
"We're focusing attention on assisting individuals or groups concerned with the matters of sovereignty, border control, jobs, amongst other things," Raheem said.
The group will be headquartered in Brussels, "because it is the heart of the European Union," Raheem continued, calling the bloc, "the most pernicious force against nation state democracy in the West today."
Nationalist, populist, and far-right movements have been gaining strength in Europe; Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary have all recently elected right-wing leaders.
Bannon sees an opportunity to support domestic nationalist parties in countries across Europe with a centralized operation that shares their larger priorities, the Daily Beast reported. He was surprised to learn that no such operation already existed, the Daily Beast said.
According to Bannon, grassroots nationalist movements in countries throughout Europe are ripe for mobilization.
"It will be instantaneous," he told the Daily Beast, "as soon as we flip the switch."
Fonte: CBS News, em 26 de Julho de 2018
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(…) Mr Bannon is forming an organisation, under the innocent-sounding name of The Movement, which will serve as an inspiration, tool and potential financial vehicle for the support of radical rightist parties across the soon-to-be 27-nation EU. (…) Emmanuel Macron, the French president, appreciates the shortcomings of the European Parliament’s party structure. With the help of his République en Marche party, which catapulted him to the presidency, and reformist movements such as Spain’s Ciudadanos, Mr Macron aims to break the traditional parties’ grip on the EU legislature. There is, then, all to play for in next year’s European Parliament contest. It would certainly be strange if a legislature known as a stronghold of EU integration were to succumb to the iconoclasts of the anti-EU radical right. But it would be counter-productive to complain about Mr Bannon’s involvement in the campaign. The best way to foil the dark intentions of Mr Bannon and The Movement is to inflict a resounding election defeat on them both.
Fonte: Financial Times, em 26 de Julho de 2018
