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Edouard Gaudot is a historian and political scientist. A trainer, advisor and author, he has labored on the Faculty of Europe in Natolin (Poland) and on the European Parliament. He co-founded the journal Inexperienced European Journal. His newest e book is Les 7 Piliers de la Cité (Plon, 2022).
Voxeurop: How can we clarify this disappointing outcome for Europe’s ecologist events, specifically in France, Germany and Belgium?
Edouard Gaudot: Should you have a look at the map of Europe and the Greens, there are some nice surprises. You’ve Greens who’ve been elected in locations the place that they had little or no presence. For instance, Croatia, Slovenia, and Romania. Admittedly, these are small nations, so it isn’t as important as [the failure of the Greens] in massive nations, which can have huge repercussions within the European Parliament.
The outcomes are dangerous in two massive nations the place they have been good within the earlier election. Secondly, the Greens are in energy in Germany and Belgium. If you’re in cost, you at all times pay the worth for the choices you are taking, regardless of the federal government, the political color or the circumstances. And the worth will likely be even larger in an election the place individuals see the shortage of a working majority is much less essential. In Germany specifically, the ruling coalition is discredited, due its longstanding inside contradictions and its consequent impotence. In Belgium, it is the identical factor: there’s a energy vacuum.
The Greens are additionally paying a heavy value for the rejection of the final 5 years’ transformational inexperienced insurance policies. The primary motive is that these insurance policies weren’t at all times correctly thought-about past their technical elements: their social dimension has typically been neglected. Sure, a fund has been set as much as help miners who’re set to lose their jobs in Poland or Romania, however there is no such thing as a such compensation for all these individuals who will discover themselves with out of date combustion-engined automobiles. Typically these automobiles symbolize a significant asset for them, and typically they’re an indispensable working software. This generates uncovered prices, in addition to anxiousness concerning the future.