I can feel a harsh, insidious, strong wind that’s blowing in Europe. It’s arriving from all directions of the compass. Breezes, puffs of wind that at first seem innocuous, at the most they ruffled your hair, are transforming into a possible storm. Nationalisms are coming back with the strength of a time that seemed to be buried in history. In France the National Front’s Marine Le Pen is a favourite in the Presidential elections. The “bonapartist” Sarkozy, the man who first bombs you and then wishes you “good night” is considered by the French to be too Left wing. In the first round he is predicted to get just 19% compared to Le Pen’s 25%. Le Pen, if she is elected, will hold a referendum for leaving the EU. In Finland, the “True Finns", an Extreme right-wing, anti-Europe and xenophobic party has gained 20.4% of the vote. Its leader Timo Soini has declared that it will not support any financial help for European States in difficulty, like Greece and Portugal. In Canton Ticino the winner is Giuliano Bignasca, the parallel character to Boss(ol)i (and that’s a hard task). His "Lega dei Ticinesi" has become the top party. Bignasca immediately announced measures to reduce the number of Italians who cross the border every day to work in Switzerland. In Hungary a new Constitution has been approved. Its inspiration is “God, Fatherland and Family”. A Constitutional coup d’état by the conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Amnesty International has denounced the ultra-nationalists Constitution because “it violates the International and European regulations on Human Rights”.
The effects of the 1929 crisis had the peak of their effects in 1933, four years later. For the year 2008, the same thing should happen, and in 2012 after the banks, the States could go bust. When States go bust, the most obvious solution is dictatorship. In 1933 (a coincidence?) Adolf Hitler became Prime Minister in German as a result of regular elections. History perhaps never repeats itself in the same way, but certainly in a similar way. The fear of the economic crisis and of immigration (that didn’t exist in the 1930s) are making Europe list towards an angry mosaic of nationalisms. Who will stop it? Heil Europa!