The head of the ultra-right "Party of Freedom" Gert Wilders lost in the parliamentary elections, but his statement that "the genie is not driven back into the bottle," is also true. By itself, in a magical way, Euroskepticism will not disappear anywhere.. About this in his article for ZN. UA is written by the expert of the Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Konstantin Fedorenko.

Fedorenko notes that one of the reasons for the growth of Euroskepticism is the rejection of the growth of immigration, which some Europeans associate with a terrorist and criminal threat, while others just do not want to live next to representatives of a different culture and believe that visitors are not assimilated successfully enough. But, firstly, the aging population of Europe needs stable inflows of migrants; Secondly, it is very difficult to combat the flow of refugees from crisis regions, as practice shows. Thus, what the right-wingers call the "migration threat" will not dissolve in the air.

Another significant reason for Euroskeptic sentiment is the rejection of the fact that the EU has gradually adopted more and more powers, the author adds.. At the same time, the role of the European Parliament directly elected to the EU is relatively small, and the composition of other bodies, and especially the European Commission, the democratic choice of citizens is extremely indirectly influenced.

Many EU organs seem opaque, bureaucratic and undemocratic. But the member states do not want to significantly strengthen the role of the European Parliament, which could reduce the "democracy deficit" in the EU, as this will seem to be a step towards federalization and will also not be perceived by voters. So worry about national sovereignty - which, according to polls, was the main motivation for Brexit supporters - will also fuel Eurosceptic sentiments.

"Moreover, there is much talk now about the fact that the division into left and right gives way to the division into supporters of an" open "and" closed "policy - globalists and anti-globalists, supporters and opponents of supranational entities and. And in such a system, on one side of the barricades, naturally look Le Pen and SYRIZA, or, for example, the German "Lefts" and AdG, whose rhetoric becomes so similar that the newspaper Die Welt launched an online test for readers - representative of which of the two parties Belongs to this or that quote, "Fedorenko writes.