The Rise of the Extremist in the Heart of Europe

The Rise of the Extremist in the Heart of Europe

By: Erreh Svaia

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Last weekend we saw again how the extreme right forces managed to capitalize the migrant crisis right in the heart of Europe, it might not be a surprise, the xenophobic National Front used the terrorists attacks in Paris in order to gather a stronger following in France, they capitalized the fear, the shocking thing here, is that this time, the extreme right wing is making its advance in Germany, where moderation was the main policy for the almost 10 years since the ascension of Angela Merkel as the country Chancellor, a woman who has fought for Germany stability and endured thru really hard times.

Merkel, the prominent politician from the CDU managed to show a more human face in the middle of an humanitarian crisis that put the whole European Union in deep trouble, it was Germany who set an example in giving admittance to the thousands of refugees coming from the Middle East, but that actions seem to have a negative effect in Germany and it's society, where xenophobic movements like the so called Pegida are going stronger, giving a big impulse to extreme right parties like the now triumphant AfD, with a strong showing last weekend, a political party whose ideals are not exactly what you would call “democratic”, and whose political advance, ironically might mean a backward movement for the country.

AfD is a political party born after the financial crisis in Europe, a so called Euro Sceptic Party, they are pushing the disintegration of the European Union, opportunistically capitalizing by her president Frauke Petry, the migrant crisis currently destabilizing Europe and creating discontent among German society.

If someone's plan was to weaken Angela Merkel's government by exacerbating the migrant influx to Europe, the plan is working, if someone pretended to create cracks in the European Union by putting the countries capacities to great stress, is working too, the stress is also causing a worrying transformation within European countries as chaos starts to increase society's fears, making them easy preys of ultra-right nationalists, who are slowly gaining strength thru the voting process, with alarming appearances in countries like Greece or Slovakia, and helping governments and societies to become more authoritarian and to accept a reduction in human freedom and rights respectively.

Merkel administration has just received a warning, a big yellow card, as in France, society is becoming more and more polarized and desperate, a situation not favorable for moderation, Merkel's potential successor Julia Klöckner is not having an easy time neither as the future of the Christian Democratic Union is entering tough time with important triumphs in previous considered conservative territories by the SPD, finally the xenophobic populist virus has arrived to the heart of Europe, it's time for Merkel to really show what the European Union has done for Europe's and the world's peace, is time to take a more dynamic stance in order to make more advances in the integration of the migrants and their quick development as the new blood for an aging nation, a nation that has been the locomotive of the EU, the EU should not disappear, nor fragment, it has proved to be a successful enterprise to secure Europe's peace now is time to demonstrate its value to assimilate more people into the system in a democratic way in order to assure a better future for the whole continent.

Merkel´s greatest battle is just about to begin.