European political landscape shifts right in 2024 as far-right gains ground

The European elections, along with polls in Portugal and Austria, have shifted the political landscape to the right and far-right.

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00:00The year 2024 saw Europe tilt to the right. Not only the EU elections but also the polls

00:10in France, Portugal, Belgium and Austria have shifted the political landscape this year

00:15towards the right and the far right. A dynamic based on common roots according to Pascal

00:21David, a professor of political science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

00:51For the professor, this is not a cyclical phenomenon but rather a political trend observed

01:06since the beginning of the century. While early elections in Germany at the end of

01:33February could be a turning point for 2025, the current political shift is something that's

01:40gone beyond the borders of Europe. Analysts believe the victory of Donald Trump in the

01:45US is part of the same dynamic, even if differences exist on both sides of the Atlantic to explain

01:53the trend.