European political parties shift right
EVERY four years researchers at the University of North Carolina and other institutions ask experts to place Europe’s political parties on various spectrums. The latest version of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey reviewed 132 parties in 14 EU countries, including the five biggest. It finds that since 2014, socialist, Christian democrat and conservative parties have as a group moved towards more restrictive immigration policies and that the liberal, Christian democrat and especially conservative ones have increased their tendency to deploy anti-establishment or anti-elite rhetoric. There is still a gap between Europe’s mainstream and the fringes—but it seems to be narrowing.