Il European vote on 25 May it showed a strong signal of intolerance towards Europe, but overall the system held up, also thanks to the surprising Italian vote.
- eurosceptics they reached the threshold of 18% of the seats in the European Parliament, less than a fifth of the total. So the Eurosceptic tide feared on the eve of the vote did not exist, or at least it was much less than what the polls indicated, which once again proved to be fallacious.
It should also be noted that these political groups are very divided among themselves, precisely as national expressions and therefore this will greatly reduce their effectiveness on Parliament itself.
They are political formations that speak above all to the irrational part of the voters, to their fears, to their apprehensions in the face of the changes brought about by globalisation. It will be difficult for the traditional forces present in the EU Parliament to deal with them, to find compromises. It will only be possible to leave them isolated, to show their proactive limits, to gradually erode their consensus.
Of course, the sensational French and English result they sound like a stark warning that something is wrong in today's EU. Marine Le Pen's Front Nationale came first in France with 24,9% of the votes, as did Nigel Farage's UKIP of the United Kingdom Independence Party, which came in at 27,5%. But they are both rearguard responses, back to the borders of small homelands. It is no coincidence that Ukip is pronounced in English you keep, that is you stay, keep, keep an impossible dream.
The return to the past is a signal of a return to the nations, to the solutions of the last century. Perhaps some competences, today delegated to Brussels, will be able to return to national borders, but other dossiers such as energy, industrial policies, corporate taxation and defense will have to be devolved to the center of a federal system, otherwise this newly elected one could be the last European Parliament.
