(18 January 2016) – The refugee crisis has exposed cracks in the EU’s political foundations but also among socio-democrats.
Failure to agree over how to implement refugee quotas and inability to coordinate humanitarian actions has allowed Eurosceptics to vaunt their populist talents.
Information chaos has wreaked havoc in Europe, radicalising public opinion. The Right joined forces, holding a hard line on immigration policy while appeals for solidarity and common action crashed against the opposition of the Visegrad countries – two of them run by ‘social democrats’.
Thus, the refugee crisis has also exposed the crisis of the European left and its internal axiological incoherence.