Steve Bannon, the former advisor to the President of the United States and a figure close to the American far-right, is preparing to create a foundation (The Movement) in Europe to unite populists from all sides, with the 2019 European elections in his sights.
Steve Bannon is still chasing a megalomaniac dream: to make national populism by fracturing the European Union through the unification of populist movements that are currently mushrooming on the grounds envisioned by De Gaulle and Adenauer.
Bannon has traveled across Europe meeting with leading populist figures like Italy’s Matteo Salvini, France’s Marine Le Pen, Germany’s Alice Weidel, and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is a great admirer of his.
The former advisor to President Donald Trump plans to support the far-right in the upcoming European elections: he hopes to trigger a right-wing populist revolution across the continent and create a right-wing “supergroup” within the European Parliament that could gather at least one-third of the MEPs.
Steve Bannon was astounded to discover that nationalist movements in Europe were not pooling their skills and not sharing their ideas with populist parties in neighboring countries – and even less so on an international scale.
Indeed, European nationalist movements do not maintain good relations with each other, as most of them consider national greatness at the expense of their neighbors. Moreover, the anti-immigration rhetoric of many Western European far-right politicians also targets the electorates of their Eastern European far-right colleagues.
He sees Matteo Salvini as a model for future partners of his Movement. “Italy is the beating heart of modern politics. If it works there, it can succeed anywhere.”
This agitator has similar plans for a pan-European force.
