00:00The far-right continues to expand its power in the EU, with a new government in the Netherlands
00:06taking office on Tuesday.
00:08Furthermore, the far-right national rally won the first round of French legislative
00:12elections on Sunday.
00:23On the one hand, it could be, of course, a question of hollowing out European policies
00:28from within.
00:29On the other hand, well, those far-right leaders might start to understand that they
00:35also need the European Union to be able to deliver a number of the promises that they
00:41have done to their national electorate, especially in terms of security and immigration.
00:51Hungary is the only member state with a far-right party with a majority in power.
00:56The far-right has entered coalition governments in Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Czech
01:00and Croatia.
01:02France might be next.
01:03If the second round on July 7 confirms the victory of national rally, the centrist President
01:09Emmanuel Macron could be more isolated.
01:14He would lose control over many internal policies and influence in the European Council.
01:22What is, of course, very clear is that French President Emmanuel Macron is strongly weakened
01:27by the current election results and that will probably not really be changing next Sunday.
01:37And so, indeed, he will be a weakened president around the European table and that can also
01:45have an impact on the German-French axis, which, of course, historically and still today
01:51is one of the main driving forces of European politics.
01:59A political dossier cannot be approved if four member states representing 35% of the
02:05EU population abstain or vote.
02:08Some of the areas that could be most impacted are the implementation of the Migration Pact,
02:12the new phase of the Green Deal and support for candidate countries for EU membership.
