The EU Parliament is filled with immigration critics

Published 10 June 2024 at 12.03

Politics. The fiasco of the Sweden Democrats in the EU elections is a parenthesis in a European perspective, where the big news is that parties critical of immigration are now for the first time a force to be reckoned with in the EU parliament.

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In Germany, the Alternative for Germany party, which is a genuinely anti-immigration party that, among other things, wants to invest in non-voluntary return migration, gets 15 seats in the parliament after an election result of a sensational 15.9 percent.

In Austria, the FPÖ received 25.7 percent support, which gives the party 6 seats in parliament.

In France, Marine Le Pen's National Rally party gets 30 seats after an election result of 31.4 percent .

Some countries are going against the grain. In Sweden, SD does not lose any mandates, but on the other hand voter support drops by 2 percent. In Hungary, the ruling party Fidesz and its governing alliance did really badly, which for the first time since 2004 received voter support below 50 percent. However, the immigration-critical Fidesz retains 11 seats in the European Parliament.