The AfD’s third-residence finish shows that populism in Europe is here to stay – but it can be beaten After the Brexit vote in Britain and Donald Trump’s rise to power in the US,pundits predicted that a wind of populist, anxious, or resentful,anti-politics-as-usual change would sweep across Europe. Like a series of dominoes, the governments of the Netherlands and France – and possibly, or whether rather more implausibly,even Germany – would fall to the Eurosceptic forces of Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen and Frauke Petry.
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Source: theguardian.com