Bannon plans a right-wing uprising of the EU «DiePresse.com

Brussels / Washington . Steve Bannon, the highly controversial former strategist of Donald Trump, will now leave his mark on European politics. With a foundation of his own, the radical journalist wants to influence the European Parliament elections in May 2019. The plans seem to have been completed: "The Movement" – the planned name of its organization – will be based in Brussels to support the European right-wing populists, reported The Daily Beast. quoting Bannon

The 64-year-old man heads a "right-wing populist super-group" in the European Parliament that, after the 2019 elections, could include up to one-third of MEPs. "A unified bloc of this size could seriously disrupt the parliamentary process and give Bannon an enormous influence within the populist movement," the report said.

Specifically, the proposed organization is supposed to have right-wing populists in the EU. Form surveys, badyzes and advice, as indicated in the report. Before the 2019 European elections, she would hire ten people.

Soros, "a brilliant devil"

The right-wing publicist is counting on the election in his own words with a victory of the right-wing populists. "Right-wing populist nationalism is coming in. It's going to rule," said Bannon aloud, "The Daily Beast." Through right-wing populist movements, Europe will have nation-states with their own identities, their own borders.

He had already had talks with representatives of the right-wing parties in the EU, including Britain's Nigel Farage, former British independence chief. Party (UKIP), and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In addition, he met with representatives of the former National Marine Front of Marine Le Pen in France and the ruling PiS party in Poland.

According to media reports, Bannon was in London a week ago during his visit to the United Kingdom. There, the former confidant of Trump in a five-star hotel had received representatives of the right-wing movements in Europe. "It's such a success that we will start recruiting staff," commented Bannon.

The Foundation is also a challenge for the American billionaire George Soros, whose Open Society foundation "has been in Europe for a while is active." Bannon in conversation with "The Daily Beast": "Soros is the devil, but it is brilliant. "In Hungary, since June, a law that punishes" aid to illegal migration "applies. The" Stop Soros "law also targets NGOs.

Italy as a model

The ultra-right Bannon was encouraged by political developments in Italy.The alliance between the xenophobic Lega and the Eurosceptic "Five-Star Movement" He has been in power since June: it is the first coalition between two populist parties of the EU

He was particularly encouraged by this government coalition in Italy, He told the news portal American: "Italy is the beating heart of modern politics. If it works out there, it can succeed anywhere. Trump's former badistant has been in Rome for a long time

Bannon had been appointed supervisor of the Trump campaign three months before the 2016 US presidential election. He invented the president's nationalist and populist campaign American Republican of today. After Donald Trump took office in January 2017, Bannon was the chief strategist at the White House, but he did not stay long in that position – it seemed that the internal tensions were intense. He was released in August.

Bannon then returned to his executive position on the right-wing Internet portal "Breitbart News". Also this work that he lost at the beginning of the year – following the vortex that was attributed to him in the book of revelation "Fire and Wrath" of the journalist Michael Wolff. (ag.)

("Die Presse", print edition, 23.07.2018)