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What the US Can Learn from Poland’s Election Strategy
12 September 2024
A string of elections in Europe and Giorgia Meloni’s next move may decide whether Europe’s mainstream will muddle through in the next EU cycle or make decent progress on key challenges such as Ukraine membership or migration.
I have sympathy for the Spaniards. They bothered to go to the polls over a week ago only to get an inconclusive result that will see months of horse trading or even a new election before a coherent government can take shape. If at all.
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Yet, focusing on the messy outcome and the risk that creates for Spain’s EU presidency, not to mention the impact on EU discussions on changing the fiscal rules and other policies, misses a crucial observation that, after all, there is a clear winner for Spain and Europe – the Mainstream.